Claire Keegan Quotes

#1. Not my will, but my heart's will.

Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Claire Keegan

#3. Celeste, for example, was fuming. I guessed if you had a lot of money, you got used to the idea of collecting it. And the thought that someone like me would be

Kiera Cass

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

Claire Keegan

#5. 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.

Claire Keegan

#6. Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.

Nora Roberts

#7. 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.

Claire Keegan

#8. I've survived broken hearts. You will, too. They're all worth it when you find the real thing. The right one.

M. Leighton

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

Claire Keegan

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

Claire Keegan

#11. The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

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

Claire Keegan

#13. A shadow charmer enjoys brotherhood with the creatures of the night. His emotions cannot be manipulated. Nothing escapes his gaze. He hears and comprehends the secret languages of darkness.

Brandon Mull

#14. You said you left Mississippi in 1854," Ron says. He turns to Mamuwalde and asks "Were you a runaway slave?"
"Not at all," Cindy Lou answers. "Daddy freed him."
Ron's jaw almost hits the floor. His wine glass does.

Daven Anderson

#15. 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.

Claire Keegan

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

Claire Keegan

#17. He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain.

Alice Hoffman