Anna McPartlin > Quotes

“Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“She remained silent. There was nothing left to say. He'd said it all the night before. He had to end it. He could never leave his wife. And, in fact, she had known this. Although she loved him - and truly she did - he wasn't hers. He belonged to his wife. She'd earned him. It didn't matter that he was her first love or that she was his passion. It didn't matter that they had loved one another for more than half their lives. It didn't matter that he had married his wife on the rebound. It didn't matter that he didn't love the woman. It didn't even matter that they had turned into some soap-opera cliche. He was married to someone else and that meant that she was leftovers and destined to remain on the periphery in the shadow of another woman's marriage. But no more. She was well and truly sick of it. ”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“I need some space."
"Because of my past?"
"No, because of mine. When I'm around you I feel like I'm falling. I need to stop before I smash into the ground."
"Are you always so honest?"
"No. Mostly I'm a liar like you.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“After night comes day.
After death comes life.
Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone.
You are loved. ”
― Anna McPartlin

“You selfish bitch!"
She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam's wife and children was indeed selfish. She had no real answer to the accusation thrown at her.
"I'm sorry" she said, with her head in her hands.
"you're sorry?" came her adversary's disbelieving reply.
"I am. I'm sorry he married you when he was in love with me. I'm sorry I couldn't have loved someone else. I'm sorry your marriage is a joke and I'm sorry that I'm alone. I'm sorry for a lot of things - for you, for your kids, for me and for him. I spend most of my time being sorry."
For a moment there was silence at the end of the line.
"all you had to do was stay away"
"if only I could have." tears escaped and raced down her cheeks.
"I hate you!”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“Only one person in the room didn't cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.”
― Anna McPartlin

“She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. ”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“You drive me crazy!"
"You were always crazy. I just highlight it.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“The emptiness made her insides ache.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me."
Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed.
"I know I'm selfish"
"You're human"
"I wanted him to abandon his children”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“Why is life so hard?"
"Because god is a spoilt child and this world is just a game he plays to amuse himself.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable.”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“The first few years eamonn and I were together I wasn't sure I even liked him, let alone loved him.”
― Anna McPartlin, Alexandra, Gone

“As recordações são coisas absurdas. Algumas são vagas, outras cristalinas, outras ainda demasiado dolorosas para as lembrarmos e outras, então, deixam-nos tanta dor que não conseguimos esquecê-las.”
― Anna McPartlin, Pack Up the Moon

“A dor torna-nos quem somos, ensina-nos e doma-nos, pode destruir e pode salvar.”
― Anna McPartlin, Pack Up the Moon

“We're giving each other space."
"You know what I think?"
He shook his head.
"Space is for astronauts." ”
― Anna McPartlin, Apart from the Crowd

“Today I’m alive and here, and now it’s my job to fill my daughter’s world with love, happiness and security. She doesn’t need Disney Land, she just needs me, and I’ll do my best so that when I’m gone she’ll have a head full of memories and a heart full of love.”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“you’d speak for Rabbit.’ ‘OK,’ she said. ‘It’s a bullshit idea. Whatever about your ma”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“was a teenager she’d bought a red clay Buddha in a charity shop, and when her mother asked her why she wanted it, she told her she preferred to look at a fat god laughing rather than a skinny one dying. Rabbit never needed to believe in any god to marvel at the world, to feel joy, hope, love and contentment. Rabbit lived in the moment. She didn’t know what came next, nor did she care. It was likely that death meant a full stop and that didn’t scare her. In fact, when she thought about it, the notion of eternity was far more worrying”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“We could always drive the car into the sea,’ Molly said, out of nowhere, as though she was reading his mind. ‘It would be unfair on the kids but at least we’d get to go first, the way Nature fucking intended,’ she added. ‘I’ve always liked Dollymount Strand,’ he said. ‘Me too.’ ‘Howth is pretty at this time of year. And there are some lovely spots in Wicklow.”
― Anna McPartlin, The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes

“deep down she had known that he loved what she represented rather than who she was.”
― Anna McPartlin, So What If I'm Broken