"What are you supposed to do with all……" — Maggie O'Farrell
"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 that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?"
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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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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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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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