Frases de Maggie O'Farrell

“Alucinaste cuando, a finales de mes, apareció dinero en tu desértica cuenta bancaria. ¡El milagro del trabajo! Y al mes siguiente, otra vez. Era una transacción alquímica muy sencilla. Tú tenías que llegar a la oficina a las diez, quedarte allí hasta la tarde, hacer lo que te mandaran y, al final, te daban dinero.”

Maggie O'Farrell

De dinero

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

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Maggie O'Farrell

Fuente: After You'd Gone

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

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Maggie O'Farrell

Fuente: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”

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Maggie O'Farrell

Fuente: After You'd Gone

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”

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Maggie O'Farrell

Fuente: After You'd Gone