The Forester's Daughter Quotes

“He has never understood the human compulsion for conversation: people, when they speak, say useless things that seldom if ever improve their lives. Their words make them sad. Why can't people stop talking and embrace each other?”
― Claire Keegan, The Forester's Daughter

“That she is a strange child can't be doubted. Martha's youngest holds funerals for dead butterflies, eats the roses and collects tadpoles from the cattle tracks, set them free to grow legs in the pond.”
― Claire Keegan, The Forester's Daughter

“McGahern, John”
― Claire Keegan, The Forester's Daughter

“Now that so much has been said there is nothing left to say.”
― Claire Keegan, The Forester's Daughter

“She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn’t.”
― Claire Keegan, The Forester's Daughter