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Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?

Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: another growl at his back. Then she looked again at the typescript

another growl at his back. Then she looked again at the typescript

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: ... one of those terrifying rows where suddenly an end you never thought would come rears up in front of you, like a cliff edge you weren't aware of.

... one of those terrifying rows where suddenly an end you never thought would come rears up in front of you, like a cliff edge you weren't aware of.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: to having his own way, to people jumping when he called, jump. Lexie

to having his own way, to people jumping when he called, jump. Lexie

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.

That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him

She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.

You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move.

The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did

She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Two women in a room. One seated, one standing

Two women in a room. One seated, one standing

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

Maggie O'Farrell quotes: He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.

He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.