"She has spent most of the day reading……" — Maggie O'Farrell
"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 in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in."
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11 Quotes by Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell has 11 quotes on this site.
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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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It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because…
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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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Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless…
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It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed,…
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Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored…
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly…
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Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love…
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I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love…
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