Chancy

“Viktor, inside my head, while I can still explain . . . Things are not moving forward. The world, that keeps moving forward, I understand that, I sense that. It won’t stop moving forward. But my brain is doubling back on itself. Even now, back I go. It feels like a bathtub, when someone pulls out the plug. Circles, circles, circles, and, every time around, something new, something not understood, and there’s me trying to scramble up the sides. And this is me at my best, this is when I still have a grasp.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“Grief doesn’t need an answer, any more than love does,” says Elizabeth. “It isn’t a question.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“There comes a point when you look at your photograph albums more often than you watch the news. When you opt out of time, and let it carry on doing its thing while you get on with yours. You simply stop dancing to the beat of the drum.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“all I know is that I will be there for her. That’s all I have to give.”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die