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Anne Enright

The Gathering

  • Yolik Tuychievhas quoted5 years ago
    The problem with Liam was never something big. The problem with Liam was always a hundred small things. He had cigarettes but no matches, did I have matches?
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    You know everything at eight, but it is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    a woman with no luggage, no sharp objects, and nothing I haven’t packed myself.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    They are young again; back at that moment in life when someone else’s body is a path that might be taken, with no chance of return.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    So I left him and he left me. What else are siblings supposed to do?
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    if he made a home, it was only ever to leave it.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    realised, too, that I was not in love with him, but condemned instead to a lifetime of such false intensities, that I would have to love each man I slept with in order not to hate myself,
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    We do not always like the people we love–
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    It is the way he refused to own me, no matter how much I tried to be owned. It was the way he would not take me, he would only meet me, and that only ever halfway.

    I think I am ready for that now. I think I am ready to be met.
  • Andrea EBJhas quoted3 years ago
    I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.
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