Top 20 Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
#3. When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.
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#4. When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.
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#5. In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend ...
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#6. Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.
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#7. If there were nothing else, reading would
obviously
be worth living for.
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#8. Hough silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
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#9. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?
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#10. Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
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#11. Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
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#12. I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
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#14. My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.
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#15. There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.
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#16. But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.
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#18. A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.
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#19. Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.
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