The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

by Richard Osman

I imagine a dog would be a draw. Though Joanna’s probably allergic. She never was as a child, but people seem to get allergic to all sorts as soon as they move to London.

“It is fine to say ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ It is admirable. But it no longer applies when you’re eighty. When you are eighty, whatever doesn’t kill you just ushers you through the next door, and the next door and the next, and all of these doors lock behind you. No bouncing back. The gravitational pull of youth disappears, and you just float up and up.”

he does know that people who like jazz seem to enjoy life, and that he needs to pretend to enjoy life a bit more than he does. And what if it’s the same as apples? What if pretending to enjoy life is the same as actually enjoying it?

You will go completely mad waiting for life to be fair,

After meeting Stephen she took herself less seriously. The moment she had done that, a door was opened, which true friends could walk through. And in they walked.