No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.
Allison PearsonI forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
Allison PearsonIn death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Allison PearsonDeath itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.
Allison PearsonWhen you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
Allison Pearson