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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/grief-was-a-kind-of-illness-he-maintained-and-ran-a-course-as/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

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## More by Patrick Gale

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/i-worry-sometimes-that-we-re-apt-to-confuse-forgiveness-with/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

> [“Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/like-all-their-peers-they-went-about-things-in-the-reverse-order-to/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

> [“And she does not feel jilted, even one year on. Ben was weak or, fatal combination, weak and good. Jilting implied, if not malice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/and-she-does-not-feel-jilted-even-one-year-on-ben-was-weak-or-fatal/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

> [“Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever always abated,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/grief-was-a-kind-of-illness-he-maintained-and-ran-a-course-as/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

> [“You don’t get over sorrow; you work your way right to the centre of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-gale/you-don-t-get-over-sorrow-you-work-your-way-right-to-the-centre-of-it/)

[Patrick Gale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-gale/)

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