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“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

“Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.”
― Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday

“The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.”
― 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