From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-27:
"I had been merely a by-stander, a bit-player, while Anna did the dying." -- John Banville, in his novel The Sea, from the character Max recalling his wife's death from cancer over a year.
(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)
[I still miss
butterfluff,
who had been a RL friend far longer than an LJ one.]