117 Quotes by Edna O'Brien

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

literature is the last banquet between minds.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

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.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.