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> [“The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/the-night-before-i-left-home-there-was-the-wake-in-our-kitchen-as-was/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9df/edna-o-brien-2155_left-home_the-night-before-i-left-home-there-was-t_888630.png)

## More by Edna O'Brien

> [... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/a-country-encapsulates-our-childhood-and-those-lanes-byres-fields/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [You have to be lonely to be a writer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/you-have-to-be-lonely-to-be-a-writer/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/i-crossed-the-room-and-what-you-did-was-to-feel-my-hair-over-and-over/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/in-our-deepest-moments-we-say-the-most-inadequate-things/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/we-hide-the-truer-part-of-ourselves-when-we-love/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/the-vote-means-nothing-to-women-we-should-be-armed/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/movie-people-are-possessed-by-demons-but-a-very-low-form-of-demons/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/ordinary-life-bypassed-me-but-i-also-bypassed-it-it-couldn-t-have/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/history-is-said-to-be-written-by-the-victors-fiction-by-contrast-is/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/a-healer-the-beauty-of-the-word-a-balm-in-a-mounting-astonishment-she/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/if-i-could-feel-like-myself-i-d-thank-god-but-i-don-t-feel-and-never/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/people-liking-you-or-not-liking-you-is-an-accident-and-is-to-do-with/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [“tears running down her cheeks and her nose, tears from the cold and the prospect of being absent for weeks.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/tears-running-down-her-cheeks-and-her-nose-tears-from-the-cold-and/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [“laughter filling that end of the ward, overflowing, one bringing a chair for Eleanora, another a cup of coffee, marveling that at long last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/laughter-filling-that-end-of-the-ward-overflowing-one-bringing-a/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

> [“Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-o-brien/dilly-reckons-it-would-be-difficult-to-thread-those-needles-the-eyes/)

[Edna O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-o-brien/)

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