Diane

“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 of a parent.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“For a moment, Dexter had a fleeting but perfectly clear memory of himself at his mother's funeral, curled up on the bathroom floor while Emma held onto him and stroked his hair. Yet somehow he had managed to treat this as nothing, to throw it all away for dross.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Grief comes in waves. Now it threatens to capsize him.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Now there's a war in Europe and she has personally done nothing to stop it. Too busy shopping for furniture.”
― David Nicholls, One Day