I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein— side by side with... visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said, "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and nexe year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.


The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (ed. 2009)

Mary Ann Shaffer Quotes

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein— side by side with... visitors offering their condolences,...

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein— side by side with... visitors offering their condolences,...

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein— side by side with... visitors offering their condolences,...

I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein— side by side with... visitors offering their condolences,...