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“It was strange that someone whose need to worship was so intense could be so dismissive of religion.”
― Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday

“I had been here during heavy rain, the kind of rain that becomes pleasurable to watch because it makes of the house of a haven. The rooms in which one moves become a world apart from the wet streets, the sodden garden.”
― Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday

“Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.”
― Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday

“In the apprehension of art there can be a loneliness, as there so often is in its creation. This breaching of loneliness may be the secret of what an audience is, or at least one of its secrets.”
― Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday