The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination. - Kate Atkinson

"Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion."

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.