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Maggie O'Farrell is a Northern Irish author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. Her book The Hand That First Held Mine won the 2010 Costa Novel Award.

✵ 1972
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Famous Maggie O'Farrell Quotes

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

Maggie O'Farrell

Source: After You'd Gone

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

Maggie O'Farrell

Source: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”

Maggie O'Farrell

Source: After You'd Gone

“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”

Maggie O'Farrell

Source: After You'd Gone

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