“Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they got on really well then fell in love.” — 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, then aforethought and he was considerate to a fault and not a planner. As he had… — 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
