Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'BrienThere was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
Edna O'BrienI did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
Edna O'Brien