Country Girl
Edna O'Brien
Top 10 Best Quotes
“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
“Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”
“I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.”
“Life was a bitch. Love also was a bitch.”
“There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.”
“Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.”
“It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.”
“Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.”
“After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.”
“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.”
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writing, love, goodbye, money, shelves, lonely, loneliness, books
