“ Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl… Wally Lamb
“ You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad? Wally Lamb
“ For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as the rose's,And love is more cruel than lust.Time turns the old days to derision,Our loves into corpse… Algernon Charles Swinburne
