Circle of Friends Quotes

“Who knows what light housework means? One nun’s light could be another nun’s penal servitude.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one’s motives entirely misunderstood?”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“It’s what people do is important, not what they say or feel.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“The rage she felt was a real thing, you could almost take it out of her and see it, like a red mist.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“God, Benny, don’t blow your nose like that in the church. You’d lift half the congregation out of their seats,” Patsy warned.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. “I think when we’re married we might have something more modern,” he grumbled. “No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“Benny knew she was sounding very peculiar but conversation of any kind made her feel less anxious. It filled that great empty echo chamber of anxiety she felt”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“There had been wonderful news from the convent. Mother Clare had broken her hip. Not that Mother Frances called it wonderful news, but it did mean that she would need to be near a hospital and physiotherapy, and all the stairs and the walking in St. Mary's wouldn't be advisable. Mother Frances was in the middle of the thirty days prayer when this happened. She told Eve that it was her biggest crisis of faith yet. Could the prayer be too powerful?”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“like”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“You know how sorry he is Nan. You must know how he’d give any of us the moon after he’s been—not himself.” “It’s too high a price to pay for the moon,”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“But in University women were there because they were studious. Or because they wanted people to think they”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“bowls of cornflakes,”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“watched”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“for”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“For one thing nobody seemed to think that”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“Benny explained that it wasn’t her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends

“respectability with overtones of”
― Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends