Best 5 quotes of Deirdre Madden on MyQuotes

I had been here during heavy rain, the kind of rain that becomes pleasurable to watch because it makes of the house a haven. The rooms in which one moves become a world apart from the wet streets, the sodden garden.

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.

It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in the imagination which is so difficult to sustain through the course of one's whole life.

Rejection only made the attachment stronger. I realized that the impossibility of connection was a driving force behind his desire.