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“And she holds the photograph. She holds it in her hands. She looks at it and she knows.” (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Quotes)
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“In an odd way, we no longer seemed like a family, just a collection of people living in different rooms.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn’t think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn’t behave, wouldn’t act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn’t like.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“Two women in a room. One seated, one standing”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“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.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
“We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
Maggie O’Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
