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Deirdre Sullivan

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Born

in Galway, Ireland

Website

http://deirdresullivanbooks.com

Twitter

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Genre

Children's, Young Adult, Contemporary

Member Since

November 2007

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Deirdre Sullivan is a writer from Galway.

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Deirdre Sullivan’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 6,090 ratings · 1,180 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	Perfectly Preventable Deaths 3.57 avg rating — 2,095 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Karen Vaughan (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 1,415 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Savage Her Reply by Deirdre Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Karen Vaughan (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Precious Catastrophe (Perfectly Preventable Deaths #2) 3.95 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Needlework 3.97 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wise Creatures 3.65 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Want To Know That I Will Be Okay 3.84 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prim Improper (Prim, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Improper Order (Prim, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primperfect (Prim, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Deirdre Sullivan

Perfectly Preventable Deaths (2 books)
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Deirdre Sullivan (Goodreads Author)

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Prim (3 books)
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If you like books about queer kids falling in love and having adventures, you're in for quite the treat this month. June brings a great...

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“You thought if you were good. If you gave up the things that made you different. The world you know. That it would be enough. But sacrifice is often so invisible. People do not look for it in others. They know their own. They list them out like titles at a ball. I've done for you. I've done for you. I've done. And it is always your turn now. To hurt, to long. To be a broken thing. A thing that differs. Before, you always thought you were a person.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Tangleweed and Brine

tags: fairytale, fairytale-retelling, feminism, love, sacrifice

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“Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my anger and my pain and they will feed me.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

tags: anger, forgiveness, foster-child, irish-mythology, pain, regret, resentment, sister, stepmother, wife

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“You grew up soft. Your tender heart would nurse a frightened field mouse rescued from a trap. Would make a splint. You'd try to help but always it would die. You gave them names. You were a friendless child, a barrel-chested, sturdy little thing who played alone.
You grew up soft, but still you learned to hide it. Piece by piece. The world's not built for soft and sturdy things. It likes its soft things small and white, defenceless. Princesses in castles. Maidens waiting for the perfect sword. You grew up soft, and piece by wounded piece you built a carapace around your body. Humans are peculiar little things.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Tangleweed and Brine

tags: fairytales, feminism, growing-up

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Deirdre’s Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx