Maeve Brennan Quotes

• All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

  Maeve Brennan

  Past, Faces, Unbearable

  Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Home, Mirrors

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Visitor”, p.8, Counterpoint

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• New York no hace nada por quienes nos sentimos inclinados a amarla, salvo implantar en nuestros corazones una nostalgia que nos desconcierta hasta que nos alejamos de ella, y entonces nos damos cuenta de por qué estamos inquietos. En casa o fuera de ella, sentimos nostalgia de New York no porque New York solía ser mejor ni porque solía ser peor, sino porque la ciudad nos retiene y no sabemos por qué.

  Maeve Brennan

  New York, Home, Heart

  Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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