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“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, an...”
“It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.”
“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four oclock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the...”
“He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. Things s...”
“The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate, but Emma had seen these things before and knew what was required of her. Beautiful, she sighed, though in truth it c...”
“Every week seems to bring another luxuriantly creamy envelope, the thickness of a letter-bomb, containing a complex invitation a triumph of paper engineering and a comprehensive dossier of phone ...”
“Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.”
“He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss o...”
“Live each day as if its your last, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasnt practical. Better by far to s...”
“No-one ever built a statue of a critic.”
“The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.”
“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”
“[He] didnt like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.”
