Top 12 Quotes by Nuala OFaolain

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

Nuala O'Faolain

Records, Creation, Accepting

Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.

Nuala O'Faolain

Country, Lonely, Heart

...friendship is something you do.

Nuala O'Faolain

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

Nuala O'Faolain

Passive, Active, Humans

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

Nuala O'Faolain

Reading, Worth Living, Ifs

Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

Nuala O'Faolain

Dream, Long, Waiting

Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.

Nuala O'Faolain

Past, May, Action