The Gathering
Anne Enright
Top 10 Best Quotes
“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
“There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.”
“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest. And the girls will be picked up from school, and dropped off again in the morning. Your eldest daughter can remember her inhaler, and your youngest will take her gym kit with her, and it is just as you suspected - most of the stuff that you do is just stupid, really stupid, most of the stuff you do is just nagging and whining and picking up for people who are too lazy to love you.”
“I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead”
“I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.”
“Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.”
“I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.”
“Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.”
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Book Keywords:
love, death-and-dying
