Emma

“He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“We can air our grievances in life, or we can try to understand other people's. Anna's a smart person. She does the really hard work with Tully and then he goes off and makes a plan with somebody else. It's a thing men do. Not the end of the world, but you can't expect her to like it.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“He spent the strike slagging off other miners. He never shifted a single one of his prejudices. And recently, while we were making things nice at the house he was upstairs boiling with anger. The way he turns up at the football field all raging and full of spite about the boys trying to get a clear shot at the goal. Violence, man. At some level they pass that on to you, the violence. Unless you say no.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“You don't let go once. That's your first mistake. You say goodbye over a lifetime. You might not have thought about her for ten years, then you'll hear a song or you'll walk past somewhere you once went together - something will come to the surface that you'd totally forgotten about. And you say another goodbye. You have to be prepared to let go and let go and let go a thousand times.”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material