Gillian Freeman > Quotes

“Old people forgot quickly. He thought they minded about things less. Like Aunt Lily. She adored her husband but when he died she cried for a day or two, then tidied up the house, ate more heartily and drank more stout than ever before. She talked about ‘poor old Fred’ as if he had never really lived in the place. Dick knew that in a few days Gran would refer to Grand-dad as ‘poor’. The dead were always ‘poor’.”
― Gillian Freeman, The Leather Boys