A Family Matter Quotes

“You will be so many people in your lifetime that you’ll look back one day and not even recognise some of the people you have been.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“She cannot say, you cannot die, not now, because I will sometimes want to call you, to tell you a joke I read in the paper, or that I saw a famous person on the platform at London Bridge. You cannot die, because you will be missing from the photographs of all the days that haven’t happened yet—the children grown up, graduations, weddings, their babies. Maggie knows you cannot tell someone they are not permitted to die, no matter how reasonable the request.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“she loves them most when they are asleep. You cannot get parenting wrong when they are asleep,”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“I am sad beyond all normal sadness.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“If you have time to worry about other people’s problems, you have few enough of your own.’ He”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“reminds herself that she is a finished person.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“Maggie will live with this now, the anticipation of grief, for all the months and years it will take. The time before has already gone. The time when everything was simply fine.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“If she had stories at all, they were really Maggie’s. The feeling, on the day Maggie was born, that she mattered at last, that she was needed in the world.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“She had told him, clearly, she thought, that an affair was the last thing she’d want...
It’s just, a little flirtation. Everyone wants that. For the adrenaline of it, she meant, a moment of potential not acted upon. Opportunity, but not action.
But it was true, Maggie did want that again, just a moment with someone new.
“Isn’t that reasonable, normal even? I don’t want to sleep with anyone else, I just want to know that someone else might want to sleep with me.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“”There were times when Maggie’s straightforwardness was misunderstood as insensitivity. She took this as a failure on the other person‘s part rather than as a hint to self -moderate.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“This is a day she has been waiting for all her life. Her chance to repay him. The one who loved her. The one who stayed.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter

“He wants to say, you will be so many people in your lifetime that you’ll look back one day and not even recognize some of the people you have been.”
― Claire Lynch, A Family Matter