My Dream of You Quotes

“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
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― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old.

I looked at her. The Albert Einstein hairstyle, and the bright black eyes and the sharp nose. That pallor on her face.

She put her small hand on mine.

The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“...time is the third party to every relationship.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“L'attesa lunga, il mio sogno di te non finito.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You