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The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue QUOTES

The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue QUOTES

1 " We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable... "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

2 " Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact. "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

3 " The convent was a gray stone building with hundreds of small square curtainless windows, like so many eyes spying out on the wet sinful town. "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

4 " Waiting for something to happen in the deathly, unhappy silence. "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

5 " I don’t know what this great weight of hair is for. Our Lady would hardly approve it,” she said as she passed on to the next girl. "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

6 " We have a gray stone house with stone slates on the roof and wooden beams inside, and whitewashed bumpety walls and pots for flowers everywhere; the boards creak and he loves me, and there is something about having a child and being in a valley, and being loved, that is more marvelous than anything you or I ever knew about in our flittery days. "

― Edna O'Brien , The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue