“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”
“Grief is the emotional contract of divorce”
“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”
“You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.”
“He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.”
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached that point.”