Edna O'Brien - The Love Object (1968)

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I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy or in bed with a strange man.

Edna O'Brien

To Crystal, hair was the most important thing on earth. She would never get married because you couldn't wear curlers in bed then.

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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.

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She looked like a woman who was being sent to a mental institution, but did not know it.

Edna O'Brien

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

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