"If you don't ask, you can keep your head buried in the sand."

”This, I learned, was how the ministry received the power of time-travel. Not through invention, but through the fine British tradition of finders keepers.”

"You poked it with a stick?"

"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”

"I think time has no meaning when it comes to grief."

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, ‘A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.’”

“When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.“