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“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

“I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.”
― 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