Claire Keegan Quotes

#1. That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.

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#2. I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

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#3. As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

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#4. Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.

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#5. Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.

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#6. It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

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#7. My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

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#8. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores.

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#9. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

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