Hal

“It surprised him that his grief was sharper than in the past few days. He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book. Instead, it was almost as if his body contained a big pile of garden rubbish full both of heavy lumps of dirt and of sharp thorny brush that would stab him when he least expected it.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math book. Instead, it was almost as if his body contained a big like of garden rubbish full both of heavy lumps of dirt and of harp thorny brush that would stab him when he least expected it.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand