You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. - Kate Atkinson

She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and it was only when she realized that it was too late, that it could never be, that she understood what it was that she had lost. Pamela's life would go on after she was dead, her descendants spreading through the world like the waters of a delta, but when Ursula died she would simply end. A stream that ran dry.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters.

I loved him so much. Love him so much. I don’t know why I use the past tense. It’s not as if love dies with the beloved.