Saints and Sinners Quotes

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”
― Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners: Stories

“Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.”
― Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners: Stories

“If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin”
― Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners: Stories