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The Country Girls Trilogy & Epilogue [The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, Girls in their married bliss].

Book by Edna O'Brien · 3 quotes · Heartache, Relationships, Longing

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The Country Girls Trilogy & Epilogue [The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, Girls in their married bliss]. Quotes

“Useless to say that I hadn't thought of him when I was doing it. Useless to say that I always thought your acquaintanceship with one person had nothing to do with another. Or to say all the things that went on in my head, the longings, for songs, cigarettes, dark bars, telegrams, cacti, combs in your hair, the circus, nights out, life. He wouldn't understand.”

“The good and the bad of him alternated in my thoughts, as I remembered first his scowling expression and his unyielding nature and then his tenderness - he brought me toast to bed once and put lanolin on a welt of mine, and got three pillows so that I could be propped up to read. For a while I welcomed the fact that one day I would be old and dried, and no man would torment my heart.”