Edna O'Brien - Love Quotes

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People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

Edna O'Brien
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Edna O'Brien
Shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

Edna O'Brien
I'm very steadfast is the word. The idea that one crawls in and out of bed is so crass. I believe in love, not promiscuity, and they don't go together. I am a romantic. We're very wise in our minds, but in our hearts we're very turbulent.

Edna O'Brien
When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

Edna O'Brien
Love... is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

Edna O'Brien
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.

Edna O'Brien
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Edna O'Brien
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

Edna O'Brien