Victoria Hislop

Why do people stay together? Putting aside __or the sake of the children_, and __he habit of years_ and __conomic reasons_ as lawyers_ nonsense _ it__ not much more _ if one really does try to find out why it is that people don__ leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It did not sound pious.