Quiz: Quotes from Claire Keegan Books
Can you match quotes from the writing of Sunday Times bestselling author Claire Keegan to her books?
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‘You don’t ever have to say anything,’ he says. ‘Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.’
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‘Every time the happily married woman went away she wondered how it would feel to sleep with another man.’
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‘That was the problem with women falling out of love; the veil of romance fell away from their eyes, and they looked in and could read you.’
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‘He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.’
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‘Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.’
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‘The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.’
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‘Small things, that’s what fathers are for, far as she can see. Practicalities. How to tie your shoelaces and buckle your seatbelt.’
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‘Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?’
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Quiz: Quotes from Claire Keegan Books
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