“I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing...” — Maeve Binchy Quote

“I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.”

“As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.”

“Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.”

“As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.”

“When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.”

“For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.”