You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good books written by other people - that…

- Maggie O'Farrell

I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life b…

- Maggie O'Farrell

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the …

- Maggie O'Farrell

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

- Maggie O'Farrell

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the…

- Maggie O'Farrell

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam…

- Maggie O'Farrell

What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you…

- Maggie O'Farrell

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

- Maggie O'Farrell

Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on you will realize were not right.…

- Maggie O'Farrell