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He understands now. Our absence is what remains of us.

Well, I know that, dear. I take breakfast with them every day.’

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return

‘It’s good to remember. People forget without meaning to.’

People bang on and on about civil liberties in China, but I’d swop places any day.

was always the ‘d’ words with her: doom and death and decay, like an adolescent locked forever in a gothic phase.

clutter mounts up and then sits there collecting dust, adding to the general sense of disrepair and decay.’

the triggers for his mother’s melancholia were infinite.

When you take away his works and all his talk about his works, he just slips through the fingers.’

‘But … you’ve spoken about it so much, his obsession, his endless work on it.’

‘It feels like he did build it. It dominated our lives for so long, dragging on and on.