32 Quotes by Keith Donohue

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

Everybody is on something these days. It’s a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

The few other shoppers were women like herself. Widows, perhaps, but grandmothers surely, out hunting for birthday gifts or bargains to store away for next winter. They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off.

Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.