A Week in Winter Quotes

“It’s a funny old world. Once you realize that, you’re halfway there.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“How will I explain it all … to everybody?” “You know, people don’t have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Problems don’t solve themselves neatly like that, due to a set of coincidences. Problems are solved by making decisions. Erika had always said that, and he had thought she was being doctrinaire. But it was true. Deciding not to change anything was a decision in itself. He hadn’t fully understood this before.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“There were women who fussed about their homes as if they thought life were a permanent examination where they would be found wanting.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Most people had nobody to share excitements and to celebrate with.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Out by that ocean, you feel smaller, less important, somehow; it puts things into proportion”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“people don’t have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Problems are solved by making decisions.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“read a poem every day and think about it,”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“She was so eager and enthusiastic that Freda and Lane felt dull and slow in comparison. If Eva had been running the library, there might be fairy lights around it, and music blaring from inside. She could have set up a cocktail bar in the foyer. Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“A silence.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“It matters that you care enough about yourself and about the people you meet to present yourself well,”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“It’s not what I thought my life would be either, but somewhere along the line we have to pick things up and run with them.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“They are just thoughts, like anyone has thoughts, that’s all.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“if your heart is elsewhere, would you not want to follow your destiny?”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Do you set out to avoid it, the love thing?” “No, but I do set out not to be made a fool of and not to compromise. I’ve seen too much of that.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“She was still vaguely hopeful that there was love out there somewhere—just a little less sure that she might actually find it.”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“a piper from the area called John Paul. Of course he did. Everyone knew”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter

“Winnie’s silver-and-black jacket might be too dressy. She wore a”
― Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter