Anagrams Quote by Maggie O'Farrell Download Open image ““We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”” — Maggie O'Farrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anagrams Metaphor
“There is an order in this world; there are distinctions, there are differences in this world upon whose verge I step. For this is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We are, whether by nature or nurture, episodic. We find a problem and then we fix it. We want there to be a beginning… — J.D. Trafford Copy Share Image
“For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“—and start a little before the beginning, because we are usually wrong about where things begin.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
“The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.” — Kim H. Krisco Copy Share Image
“We cannot pretend that the world begins and ends at the boundaries we might make for it. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that it extends… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to… — Wendo L Copy Share Image
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
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… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to follow every… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my interest in… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent. — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to… — John Banville Copy Share Image
