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21 " Listen to me, Ria. It will be different when you and I have a home. It will be a real home, one that people will want to come running back to. "
― Maeve Binchy , Tara Road
22 " You can’t marry an ungenerous man; there’s no joy in his soul. "
― Maeve Binchy , Chestnut Street
23 " How will I explain it all … to everybody?” “You know, people don’t have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do. "
― Maeve Binchy , A Week in Winter
24 " Wasn’t it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return? "
25 " ...And he said nothing. Just put his arms around her more closely as the whole heart clinic and their friends and relations danced to the music of "Hey Jude". "
― Maeve Binchy , Heart and Soul
26 " She said that it was dangerous to try to know somebody too well. People should have their own reserves, she said, the places they went in their minds, where no one else should follow. "
― Maeve Binchy
27 " It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you're not dead. It was very comforting. "
28 " It was quite possible that she had lost the capacity to love and care anymore and that this is how she was going to be for the rest of her life. "
29 " He thought about how life never turns out like you think and hope it will. "
30 " The day she realized that there were many ways to go, and Mother’s was only one way. Not necessarily the right way, and not at all the wrong way. Just one of the many ways ahead. "
31 " do you know the land where the lemon-trees blossom;where the golden oranges glow in the dark foliage''. "
― Maeve Binchy , Nights of Rain and Stars
32 " It’s what people do is important, not what they say or feel. "
― Maeve Binchy , Circle of Friends
33 " Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one’s motives entirely misunderstood? "
34 " A silly idea about a book of blessings couldn’t really work. Not seriously. "
35 " He had not known it was possible to love a little human being as he loved Annie. "
36 " Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. “I think when we’re married we might have something more modern,” he grumbled. “No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even. "
37 " well. The term “frocky” was used a lot as a derogatory description for women that Eileen and Stephanie thought were dressing just to please male egos. Yet "
38 " the situation. First time in the country and she had found St. Jarlath’s Crescent with no difficulty. “You must be Noel. I hope I’m not too early for the household.” “No, we were all up. We’re about to go to work, you see, and you are very welcome, by the way.” “Thank you. Well, shall I come in and say hello and good-bye to them?” Noel realized that he might have left her forever on the doorstep, but then he was only half awake. It took him until about eleven a.m., when he had his first vodka and Coke, to be fully in control of the day. Noel was absolutely certain that nobody at Hall’s knew of his morning injection of alcohol and "
― Maeve Binchy , Minding Frankie
39 " Benny knew she was sounding very peculiar but conversation of any kind made her feel less anxious. It filled that great empty echo chamber of anxiety she felt "
40 " God, Benny, don’t blow your nose like that in the church. You’d lift half the congregation out of their seats,” Patsy warned. "