I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
Anne EnrightIf your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
Anne EnrightWe have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
Anne EnrightI work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
Anne Enright