When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.
Edna O'BrienShe said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
Edna O'BrienAll 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.
Edna O'Brien