...friendship is something you do.

- Nuala O'Faolain

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

- Nuala O'Faolain

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

- Nuala O'Faolain

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

- Nuala O'Faolain

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

- Nuala O'Faolain

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other…

- Nuala O'Faolain

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

- Nuala O'Faolain

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

- Nuala O'Faolain

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that i…

- Nuala O'Faolain