Maggie O'Farrell Quotes

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• Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of…
• She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.
• Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.
• We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our…
• It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no…
• She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no…
• Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?
• I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be…
• What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all…
• Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as…
• She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial…

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