5 Quotes by Anne O'Brien

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

The capacity to love does not die when the lover dies.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

And sometimes – to get what you want – you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

Silence settled around us. He was asleep again, and my heart was full of sorrow that he should mourn the loss of virility so keenly and above all else. We might no longer be lovers, but we were bound together by our past that stretched over well-nigh thirteen years. Even in sleep, his fingers held mine and I knew he was pleased.