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‘A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.
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‘Love is a decision.’ ‘Love is a decision?’ ‘That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling.
The seat offers no support for the lower back and already she can feel a stabbing pain. Oh, sugar! It hurts. It really hurts. She has to stop herself from crying out, that’s how much it hurts. If her back had ever hurt like this when she was twenty she would have been hysterical, demanding painkillers and cups of tea in bed, but she has found that nobody is especially surprised to hear you’re in pain when you’re in your eighties. You might find it astonishing, but nobody else does.
No surprise you’re in pain, no surprise you’re dead. You’re old. That’s what is meant to happen. We don’t care that you forget you’re old. We know you’re old.
It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.
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But then she just got tired of hating him and started loving him again. It was easier.
Sophie has always thought that the first time you get the hysterical giggles with a new female friend is like the first time you sleep with a boyfriend; it takes your relationship to a new, more intimate level.
It is so strange that you can end up having such polite, awkward conversations with somebody with whom you once shared such intimate moments.
‘Well…yes, but anyway, love is a decision, that’s what Aunt Connie told me before she died. Actually, I don’t really know what her point was, do you?’
But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you’re wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.
Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.
