... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Childhood 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 Children Copy Share Image
Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons. — Edna O'Brien Demon 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… — Edna O'Brien Conventional 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 Bystanders 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… — Edna O'Brien Beauty Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien God 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… — Edna O'Brien Accidents Copy Share Image
“tears running down her cheeks and her nose, tears from the cold and the prospect of being absent for weeks.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“laughter filling that end of the ward, overflowing, one bringing a chair for Eleanora, another a cup of coffee, marveling that at… — Edna O'Brien Parenting Copy Share Image
“Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien Hard Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. — Edna O'Brien Ask me Copy Share Image
“Jenny is super duper” was the answer back. Jenny knew how to humor the missus, calling her a slip of a girl… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about America, people always moving on, so that a girl had to snap up a beau as fast… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are… — Edna O'Brien Affair Copy Share Image
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction,… — Edna O'Brien Bed Copy Share Image
“Strindberg came to the rescue. Why, he had asked her, did every woman he ever met have to bring her bloody mother… — Edna O'Brien Every woman Copy Share Image
“It was no longer her sleeping room, it was our sleeping room now. We made friends the night it thundered, big claps… — Edna O'Brien Friendship Copy Share Image
