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“My ma always said your heart had to be broken ten times before it was any use to you as a heart.”
― Phyllida Law, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Two-book Bundle: A Non-Fiction Memoir of Family, Motherhood, and Dementia Care

“Time is on the wane as the man said when the clock fell on the baby.’ (Wain is Scots for ‘baby’.)”
― Phyllida Law, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Two-book Bundle: A Non-Fiction Memoir of Family, Motherhood, and Dementia Care

“the Cameron Highlanders were ordered to muddy their spats because they were a dazzling white target for the Hun. Within 24 hours the order was countermanded by the Big Chief Cameron of Lochiel who presumably didn’t want his Highlanders to look slovenly when dead.”
― Phyllida Law, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Two-book Bundle: A Non-Fiction Memoir of Family, Motherhood, and Dementia Care

“Alzheimer’s, senile dementia, dementia. What’s the difference? Not much for the carer. Ma is just a confused old person.”
― Phyllida Law, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Two-book Bundle: A Non-Fiction Memoir of Family, Motherhood, and Dementia Care

“In a film called The Winter Guest, Emma and I played mother and daughter. No research required. You’re ahead of the game. And I was sort of pulled along. We would pile into a unit car at some ungodly hour and Em would say, ‘Right Ma. From the top.’ Every day. Fierce.”
― Phyllida Law, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Two-book Bundle: A Non-Fiction Memoir of Family, Motherhood, and Dementia Care