“Won't the few days off do us no harm.” — Claire Keegan Quote

“Won't the few days off do us no harm.”

“Do you know what the women have a gift for? ... Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”

“Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

“Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts,”

“It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always.”

“For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.”

“A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.”

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.”