... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“pouring her troubles out in order for her daughter to know the deep things, the wounds she had to bear:” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“divide things equally between both children? If anything should happen to her she is appealing to him to honor this final wish.… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
