Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

“Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out,"…”

“I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clot…”

“Only seven or eight, and yet she knew so exactly how to be cruel and who it was…”

“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted…”