Alice McDermott Quotes
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Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays.
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The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
Someone (2013)
My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now — to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.
Someone (2013)