“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
“Mamma says she is quite certain that "how old is too old?" is not a question known to the Lord.”
“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”
“Gran’s cottage might be tiny, and the furniture old and battered, but she ran a tight ship. As long as everything is in its right place, there’s plenty of room, she liked to say.”