when Mary Shelley said, “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” and when Stephen Chbosky said, “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
In the first week of April the weather turned suddenly unseasonably, insistently lovely. The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June.