Clare Flynn > Quotes

“but resonant and deep.”
― Clare Flynn, A Greater World

“It’s something you do and you show; not a state you’re”
― Clare Flynn, The Pearl of Penang

“Perhaps love was the accumulation of small things, little acts of consideration, the persistence of a man in loving even when he receives nothing in return.”
― Clare Flynn, Letters From a Patchwork Quilt

“I pray for you every night, Jimmy. Your pa says my knees are going to wear a hole in the rug by the bed, but I can’t stop worrying about you.”
― Clare Flynn, The Chalky Sea

“man”
― Clare Flynn, A Greater World

“love as a verb and not as a noun.”
― Clare Flynn, The Pearl of Penang

“philistin,”
― Clare Flynn, Une peintre à Penang

“There was the thrill of getting on board in one place and getting off in another, of imagining the lives of the other passengers, where they were going and why, what they were escaping from, their jobs, their secrets, their hopes and dreams.”
― Clare Flynn, Letters From a Patchwork Quilt

“think of love as a verb and not as a noun. It’s something you do and you show; not a state you’re in.”
― Clare Flynn, The Pearl of Penang