Maggie O'Farrell

Quotes

• “They have been together for so many years that they are no longer like two people but one strange four-legged creature. ...”
• “We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we ha...”
• “If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her';...”
• “She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him”
• “We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”