... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey? — Edna O'Brien Knows Copy Share Image
“I barely eat cake now. The one I’m sending you, make a hole on the top with a knitting needle and pour… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Solveig was higher up than me. She had a white apron. She was the cook. Sieving and singing hymns that her pastor… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Nothing but rules. Rule the first: no callers at the front door. Rule the second: no callers at the back door. Rule… — Edna O'Brien Front door Copy Share Image
“I don’t call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife,… — Edna O'Brien Marriage Copy Share Image
“thanking them for coming, and reminding Con to give the dog a bit of something when he gets home late, she forgets… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise… — Edna O'Brien Appointments Copy Share Image
“it was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork. — Edna O'Brien Forks Copy Share Image
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you… — Edna O'Brien Different Copy Share Image
“They have decided to chance it, the healer’s farm being only twenty miles off the main road and in her now, gusts… — Edna O'Brien Hope Copy Share Image
“suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she… — Edna O'Brien Fear Copy Share Image
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow.… — Edna O'Brien Brain Copy Share Image
“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another,… — Edna O'Brien Book Copy Share Image
it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark… — Edna O'Brien Bark Copy Share Image
“Because I had hankered to go back to America, my husband-to-be agreed that we could go there for a year, while the… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I cannot be certain what I would have said. I knew that there was something sad and faintly distasteful about love's ending,… — Edna O'Brien Love Copy Share Image
“THE TWO OTHER GIRLS in the room, Mabel and Deirdre, said I imagined it. But they were wrong. My brother appeared to… — Edna O'Brien Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment. — Edna O'Brien Darkness Copy Share Image
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. — Edna O'Brien Half Copy Share Image
