"He always thought that Touie’s lon"

“He always thought that Touie’s long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”

- Julian Barnes,

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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

- Arthur Conan Doyle,

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