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“Do you think, Daniel,” she said to him, rolling over onto her back so that she was able to look out of the window while she spoke, “that we might have reached the end of our story?” (This Must Be the Place Quotes)
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“He thinks of his grief over his sister as an entity that is horribly and painfully attached to him, the way a jellyfish might adhere to your skin or a goitre or an abscess. He pictures it as viscid, amorphous, spiked, hideous to behold. He finds it unbelievable that no one else can see it. Don’t mind that, he would say, it’s just my grief. Please ignore it and carry on with what you were saying.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“I have a theory,’ she says, looking far ahead, at where salt meets sky, ‘that marriages end not because of something you did say but because of something you didn’t. All you have to do now is work out what it is.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“If she was liquid, she would drink her; if she was a gas, she would breathe her; if she was a pill, she would down her’; if she was a dress, she would wear her; a plate, she would lick her clean.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“She must, I see now, have come in here for a break from the Sturm und Drang going on in the apartment. Funny how you realise that only after you become a parent yourself.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“There is him and there is his condition. They are two entities, forced to live in one body.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
“What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.”
Maggie O’Farrell
This Must Be the Place
