Jennifer Haigh quotes

Jennifer Haigh quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Stories Quotes #My Family Quotes
“It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Loyalty Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Fog Quotes
“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Voice Quotes #Familiar Quotes #Wanted Quotes
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Distance Quotes
“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Mother Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes
“Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.”
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Practice Quotes

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