The Death of Us Quotes

“people. He celebrates the fact that everybody he meets will be different from him, while I always assume – hope, to be truthful – that people see the world just as I do.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“You changed the way I walked home on a Friday evening. You changed the taste of wine, the plot of a novel, the confidence of Edward’s hands.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“And I knew, when I thought it, that I was still fundamentally me, that just as your departure meant I was free to shout, so your departure meant the remains of me were free to come out from wherever they had been sheltering, to brush themselves cleaner and peer into the light.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“You can spend three years reading books and still be employed.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“You can spend”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“This purgatory of separate bedrooms and keeping busy and sitting unspeaking and untouching in front of the television. It was so miserably bearable, you could do it forever.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“When I met Etta, I had just the same feeling I had when I met Edward, that she was a person I would have liked in any place at any time, the school playground or the dementia ward.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us

“I cried and cried, that really ugly variety of crying, the kind that turns your face inside out.”
― Abigail Dean, The Death of Us