Claire Keegan Quotes & Sayings

Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it. — Claire Keegan

That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't. — Claire Keegan

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be. — Claire Keegan

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing. — Claire Keegan

There's a big moon shining on the yard, chalking our way onto the lane and along the road. Kinsella takes my hand in his.
As soon as he takes it, I realise my father has never once held my hand, and some part of me wants Kinsella to let me go so I won't have to feel this.
It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.
He takes small steps so we can walk in time. I think about the woman in the cottage, of how she walked and spoke, and conclude that there are huge differences between people. — Claire Keegan

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are. — Claire Keegan

Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women. — Claire Keegan

I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. — Claire Keegan

There are tears there but she is too proud to blink and let one fall. If she blinked, he would take her hand and take her away from this place. This, at least, is what he tells himself. It's what she once wanted but two people hardly ever want the same thing at any given point in life. It is sometimes the hardest part of being human. — Claire Keegan

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me. — Claire Keegan

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is. — Claire Keegan