"It is a terrible thing to want something……" — Maggie O'Farrell
"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 one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell."
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11 Quotes by Maggie O'Farrell
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Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with…
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She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.
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Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand…
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She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen.…
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Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?
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I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you…
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What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer…
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Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea,…
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She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her…
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