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Claire Keegan Books

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Claire Keegan, born in 1968, is an Irish writer known for her profound emotional depth and delicate narrative style. Her works primarily focus on the lives of ordinary people and their place in society.

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Sisters Sibling Rivalry Parental Approval

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“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their uncanny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight and read your mind”

Women Man Difference Between Men And Women Intution

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“- 'Ah, the women are nearly always right, all the same,' he says. 'Do you know what the women have a gift for?' - 'What?' - 'Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”

Women

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“As they carried on and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

People Damn

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“for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation”

People Nature Inner Self

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“I want to say I am afraid but am too afraid to say so”

Fear Human Nature

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“It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.”

Trust Disappointment Finding The Good In Others

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“As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.”

Home Understanding

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“Una part de mi vol que el pare em deixi aquí, mentre que una altra part de mi vol que se m'emporti de tornada, cap al que conec. Estic en un punt en què no puc ni ser el que soc sempre ni convertir-me en el que podria ser.”

Change Canvi Transformació

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“For a time he stood listening and looking down at the town, at the smoke starting up from the chimneys and the small, diminishing stars in the sky. One of the brightest fell while he was standing there, leaving a streak like a chalk mark on a board for just a second before it vanished.”

Stars Sky Pause Chimney

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“Do you know what the women have a gift for? ... Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what's coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”

Love Life Lessons Hate Relationships Family Fate Parents And Children

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“I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from anybody.”

Power Agency Fortitude

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“Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make nettle soup and dandelion bread, ask for nothing.”

Power Agency Self Sufficiency

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“Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

Love Faith Hate Relationships Fate Men And Women Parents And Children

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“And so the days pass. I keep waiting for something to happen, for the ease I feel to end, but each day follows on much like the one before.”

Trauma Stability In Limbo

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“Now that Stack knew a woman, there grew the knowledge that he would never understand women. They could smell rain, read doctors' handwriting, hear the grass growing.”

Doctors Women And Men Handwriting Carnal Knowledge Understanding Women

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“Won't the few days off do us no harm. What it is to be a man," she said, "and to have days off.”

Love Hate Relationships Fate Men And Women

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“What most tormented him was not so much how she'd been left in the coal shed or the stance of the Mother Superior; the worst was how the girl had been handled while he was present and how he'd allowed that and had not asked about her baby - the one thing she had asked him to do - and how he had taken the money and left her there at the table with nothing before her and the breast milk leaking under the little cardigan and staining her blouse, and how he'd gone on, like a hypocrite, to Mass.”

Guilt Hypocrisy Of Religion Turning A Blind Eye Collective Silence

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“Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”

Women Seeing The Future Eventualities

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“Are you afraid of the dark?" I want to say I am but am too afraid to say so.”

Love Pain Hate Poverty Fate Childhood Parents And Children

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“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”

Feels Heart Hands My Heart Chests Messengers

Author:Claire Keegan

“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”

I Can Turns Spots

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About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 22

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