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“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“Måndag morgon är måndag morgon oavsett var i världen man bor. Det är ingen tröst.”
― Karin Smirnoff, Jag for ner till bror

“Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought,”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“What I wish I had known, age twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don’t go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death