The Country Girls Quotes

“You're a right-looking eejit”
― Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls

“She had always thought that people who had once loved one another kept the faintest trace of it in their being, but not him. He was free of her. Marked of course, but free in a way that she was not. She was still joined by fear, by sexual necessity, by what she knew as love.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls

“But we want young men. Romance. Love and things,' I said, despondently.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls

“But we want young men. Romance. Love and things," I said, despondently.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls