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> [“Isn’t it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives. Why worry?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/isn-t-it-funny-how-we-all-die-at-the-same-time-always-at-the-end-of/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

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## More by Alice McDermott

> [“Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/some-vestige-of-his-race-or-of-his-sex-made-him-think-whenever-he/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/if-you-want-to-see-how-far-we-have-not-come-from-the-cave-and-the/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/john-keane-pressed-his-chest-to-the-steering-wheel-as-he-put-the-key/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“The fourth contraction seized her and suddenly she was perspiring. She heard herself cry out and then she heard the children’s voices like sparks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/the-fourth-contraction-seized-her-and-suddenly-she-was-perspiring-she/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/the-tiny-spiders-that-lived-in-the-higher-branches-of-the-downed-tree/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/what-makes-a-sentence-a-phrase-a-moment-or-a-scene-delightful/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/michael-had-slipped-beyond-the-crest-of-the-dune-jacob-was-lying-flat/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“The wind,” Mary said again. “It was making everyone tear up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/the-wind-mary-said-again-it-was-making-everyone-tear-up/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/not-a-soul-mary-keane-said-to-her-husband-the-wind-lifting-her-words/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/there-wasn-t-a-tear-to-be-seen-on-the-faces-of-the-men-and-women-in/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/his-love-for-his-children-bore-down-on-his-heart-with-the-weight-of/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/mr-persichetti-knew-that-six-weeks-before-its-time-and-with-a-good/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“Mike Shea became a medic during the war and was now married, working for Pfizer. To this day he can’t look at her straight.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/mike-shea-became-a-medic-during-the-war-and-was-now-married-working/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/as-a-writer-i-m-too-busy-and-worried-to-experience-the-delight-while/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

> [“Why not?” but without conviction, confirming for them both that this was a sudden impulse that most likely would not last out the afternoon.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-mcdermott/why-not-but-without-conviction-confirming-for-them-both-that-this-was/)

[Alice McDermott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-mcdermott/)

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