“Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever always abated, given time and management, leaving the luckier among them with scars where love had been.” — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
“Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
“And she does not feel jilted, even one year on. Ben was weak or, fatal combination, weak and good. Jilting implied, if not malice,… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
“Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever always abated,… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
“You don’t get over sorrow; you work your way right to the centre of it.” — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
