After You'd Gone Quotes

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised.' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“An English teacher at school once said to her, 'Alice, one thing I hope you never find out is that a broken heart hurts physically.' Nothing she has ever experienced has prepared her for the pain of this. Most of the time her heart feels as though it's waterlogged and her ribcage, her arms, her back, her temples, her legs all ache in a dull, persistent way: but at times like this the incredulity and the appalling irreversibility of what has happened cripple her with a pain so bad she often doesn't speak for days.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Edinburgh suited Ann; she liked the tall, dignified buildings of grey stone, the short days that sank into street-lamped evenings at five o'clock, and the dual personality of the city's main street, which on one side had glittering shops and on the other the green sweep of Princes Street Gardens.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else? I never knew it was possible to think about someone all of the time, for someone to be always doing acrobatic leaps across your thoughts. Everything else was an unwelcome distraction from what I wanted to think about.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost, and all in the end is harvest.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Rain screed back along the window. She avoided the eye of the reflection whizzing along beside her in another, reversed, tilted ghost carriage that skimmed over the fields as they hurtled towards London.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Как такое может быть, ведь в мире столько людей, как жизнь может быть такой ужасающе одинокой?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Никогда не гоняйся за мужчиной, говорила ей мать. Ничего хорошего не выйдет”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Когда они только познакомились, она сказала девочкам на работе, что он тихий, серьезный и не болтает. «Вот таких-то и надо опасаться», – сказала девочка из Керри”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Все, что люди делают со своей жизнью, касается только их самих”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Между людьми, которые долго жили в одной комнате, возникает некий невидимый космос. Если спать с кем-то рядом, ночь за ночью, дышать одним воздухом, ваши сны, ваши бессознательные жизни сплетаются, электрические цепи умов пролегают совсем рядом, обмениваются информацией без участия речи”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Всегда так странно, когда ловишь себя на том, что эхом повторяешь слова родителей, замечаешь, как возвращается пережитый когда-то опыт”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“В странную погоду люди странно себя ведут”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Как быстро это произошло – Ифа выросла. Монике казалось, что еще вчера Ифа была ребенком с развязавшимися шнурками и косичками, которые расплетались сами собой, а уже на следующий день стала женщиной в просторных одеждах, в нитях бус”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“Быстрота ее ужаснула. Так легко выскользнуть из жизни. Секунду назад здесь, и вот уже нет”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“wouldn’t it?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

“She wants to gobble up time, to rush through the days and weeks and years with him, so they can do everything right now. But, at the same time, she wants to freeze it: she knows enough about love to be aware of its double bind - that there's no love without pain, that you can't ever love someone without that tinge of dread at how it might end.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone