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1 " I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power "
― Maeve Binchy , Echoes
2 " To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive "
― Maeve Binchy , Light a Penny Candle
3 " Her bed felt huge and empty now, and when she slept, she did so with her arm around a pillow. She dreamed of him almost every night, sometimes good dreams of happy days and joyful times; often they were terrible dreams of abandonment, loss and sorrow. She didn't know which was worse: every morning she woke afresh to the knowledge that he was gone and he would never come back. It would never be all right again. "
― Maeve Binchy
4 " Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn't have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was desperately unhappy at school and who had lost four stone in weight, she wouldn't hang around --she'd try to cope with it. If she had a father who couldn't cope she'd have him to live with her. Only now was she beginning to realize that it was not to be so simple. People had minds of their own. And her mother's mind was like a hermetically sealed box in a vault of a bank. "
― Maeve Binchy , The Lilac Bus
5 " Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen "
6 " How "
― Maeve Binchy , Firefly Summer
7 " She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired. "
8 " Do you like Stevie?''No, but he's good-looking.''And is Philip O'Brien good-looking?''No, but he's keen on you.'Clio had the world sorted out. "
― Maeve Binchy , The Glass Lake
9 " In my experience, lights at the end of the tunnel tend to flicker out. "
10 " I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. "
11 " We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters "
12 " I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. "
― Maeve Binchy , Tara Road
13 " She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now. "
14 " It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray "
15 " If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know.You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. "
16 " Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. "Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy "
17 " It’s a funny old world. Once you realize that, you’re halfway there. "
― Maeve Binchy , A Week in Winter
18 " Writing is a bit like going on a diet; you should either tell everyone or no one. "
― Maeve Binchy , The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
19 " Who knows what light housework means? One nun’s light could be another nun’s penal servitude. "
― Maeve Binchy , Circle of Friends
20 " But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray "
