She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.
Maggie O'FarrellTwo women in a room. One seated, one standing
Maggie O'FarrellYou young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated.
Maggie O'FarrellThat's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.
Maggie O'FarrellIt was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life.
Maggie O'FarrellGretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.
Maggie O'FarrellShe hadn’t ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did
Maggie O'FarrellWe begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.
Maggie O'FarrellWhy is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?
Maggie O'FarrellToday I am bothered by the story of King Canute. (...) The story is, of course, that he was so arrogant and despotic a leader that he believed he could control everything - even the tide. We see him on the beach, surrounded by subjects, sceptre in hand, ordering back the heedless waves; a laughing stock, in short. But what if we've got it all wrong? What if, in fact, he was so good and great a king that his people began to elevate him to the status of a god, and began to believe that he was capable of anything? In order to prove to them that he was a mere mortal, he took them down to the beach and ordered back the waves, which of course kept on rolling up the beach. How awful it would be if we had got it so wrong, if we had misunderstood his actions for so long.
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