Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brienis an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth has described her "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation."...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 December 1932
CountryIreland
beautiful flower love-is
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.
country mother father
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
flower bees saffron
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.
servant recollection i-can
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
book space chairs
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.
children hair hands
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
half should
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
falling-in-love spring differences
When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season ...
people way ordinary
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
tuning want forks
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.
shadow shadow-of-love inebriation
shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
fear live-in-the-moment moments
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
fear animal knowing
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.
mother jesus hate
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.