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Top 30 Mary Beth Keane Quotes (2024 Update)

Mary Beth Keane Quote: “They’d both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”

1. “They’d both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room or anyone who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.”

— Mary Beth Keane

Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Speaking was a habit she’d gotten into years ago, in the distant past, and now that she’d stopped she felt no desire to start again. It was pointless anyway – all the blah-blah-blabbing and, still, no one understood each other.”

2. “Speaking was a habit she’d gotten into years ago, in the distant past, and now that she’d stopped she felt no desire to start again. It was pointless anyway – all the blah-blah-blabbing and, still, no one understood each other.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “He couldn’t explain to her that he needed the trees and the quiet as a correction for what he saw on the job, how crossing a bridge and having that physical barrier between him and his beat felt like leaving one life and entering another. In.”

3. “He couldn’t explain to her that he needed the trees and the quiet as a correction for what he saw on the job, how crossing a bridge and having that physical barrier between him and his beat felt like leaving one life and entering another. In.”

— Mary Beth Keane

4. “A brand new person, made of nothing.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “When you were born, I used to daydream about leaving you with Mrs. Shefflin – remember Mrs. Shefflin? My idea was I’d ask her to watch you while I ran out for a carton of milk and then I’d never come back.” “What? Really?” Lena said, her tears instantly drying. It was so unexpected she started laughing. Then she was laughing so hard she was crying again.”

5. “When you were born, I used to daydream about leaving you with Mrs. Shefflin – remember Mrs. Shefflin? My idea was I’d ask her to watch you while I ran out for a carton of milk and then I’d never come back.” “What? Really?” Lena said, her tears instantly drying. It was so unexpected she started laughing. Then she was laughing so hard she was crying again.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “And while he lightened her burden, he felt he’d lightened his, too. It was the truth, what he’d said.”

6. “And while he lightened her burden, he felt he’d lightened his, too. It was the truth, what he’d said.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “He thought of what the Christian Brothers had said about a body being merely a vessel, about the spirit being the pilot light of one’s self.”

7. “He thought of what the Christian Brothers had said about a body being merely a vessel, about the spirit being the pilot light of one’s self.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don’t know what they’re doing any better than kids do. That’s the truth.”

8. “The thing is, Peter, grown-ups don’t know what they’re doing any better than kids do. That’s the truth.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “The thought landed lightly and easily, and as soon as Peter noted it there, everything that hadn’t quite made sense made sense again.”

9. “The thought landed lightly and easily, and as soon as Peter noted it there, everything that hadn’t quite made sense made sense again.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Kate thought about their wedding day as a conclusion to something, where he thought about it as a beginning. Rising action versus falling action. They were reading different books.”

10. “Kate thought about their wedding day as a conclusion to something, where he thought about it as a beginning. Rising action versus falling action. They were reading different books.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Anne regretted telling Bridget almost immediately. Telling her, bringing that story to England, spoiled England for her. When she left for America two years later, she knew she would be smarter. She’d bring none of Ireland with her.”

11. “Anne regretted telling Bridget almost immediately. Telling her, bringing that story to England, spoiled England for her. When she left for America two years later, she knew she would be smarter. She’d bring none of Ireland with her.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Now she wondered if presence was the thing her new neighbor had, if it was something a person had to be born with and could never be learned.”

12. “Now she wondered if presence was the thing her new neighbor had, if it was something a person had to be born with and could never be learned.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “It wasn’t that she didn’t love him, he knew. It was that she loved him so much that it frightened her, loved him so much that she worried she might have to protect herself from it. He tried to let her know that he’d figured that out, finally, that there was no need to explain, but then he realized that she might not know it herself.”

13. “It wasn’t that she didn’t love him, he knew. It was that she loved him so much that it frightened her, loved him so much that she worried she might have to protect herself from it. He tried to let her know that he’d figured that out, finally, that there was no need to explain, but then he realized that she might not know it herself.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “There was no predicting where life would go. There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it – the words he’d chosen when he told his uncle Patsy that he’d gotten into the police academy – because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.”

14. “There was no predicting where life would go. There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it – the words he’d chosen when he told his uncle Patsy that he’d gotten into the police academy – because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “They’d both learned that a memory is a fact that’s been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that.”

15. “They’d both learned that a memory is a fact that’s been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “She’d learned that the beginning of one’s life mattered the most, that life was top-heavy that way.”

16. “She’d learned that the beginning of one’s life mattered the most, that life was top-heavy that way.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “But things are meant to change, Peter said. Because life changes and people change. As long as we change together, we’re okay.”

17. “But things are meant to change, Peter said. Because life changes and people change. As long as we change together, we’re okay.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it... because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.”

18. “There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it... because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it’s who you are.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “And also, life goes more quickly now. Have you noticed that? Everything that used to move at a normal rate is moving faster now.”

19. “And also, life goes more quickly now. Have you noticed that? Everything that used to move at a normal rate is moving faster now.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “And he’d figured out that the fun was often not the thing itself – the party, the keg stand, the naked running into the duck pond – but the endless talking about it after, the reliving and describing, and laughing about it in front of people who wished they’d been there. Used to be he was one of the kids listening, one of the kids who missed everything, but now, since college, since Kate, he was in the stories.”

20. “And he’d figured out that the fun was often not the thing itself – the party, the keg stand, the naked running into the duck pond – but the endless talking about it after, the reliving and describing, and laughing about it in front of people who wished they’d been there. Used to be he was one of the kids listening, one of the kids who missed everything, but now, since college, since Kate, he was in the stories.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “She did remember some things, but those memories were of a poor quality, like someone had smeared Vaseline on the lens.”

21. “She did remember some things, but those memories were of a poor quality, like someone had smeared Vaseline on the lens.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “The first sign of cooler weather always made him crave a stack of fresh notebooks, made him want to eat an apple and then run a 10K as fast as he could.”

22. “The first sign of cooler weather always made him crave a stack of fresh notebooks, made him want to eat an apple and then run a 10K as fast as he could.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “It was one of the first things he’d noticed about America, that everyone felt at ease asking each other any question that came into their minds.”

23. “It was one of the first things he’d noticed about America, that everyone felt at ease asking each other any question that came into their minds.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Look around at the trees, at the nice even sidewalks. Wave to your neighbors and think about what a lucky girl you are. What a lucky baby she is. She has a drawer full of clothes already. Francis is a good man. Repeat it to yourself again and again. Go into the shops. Tell them your name and that you just moved here. Everybody loves a new baby.” Lena began to cry.”

24. “Look around at the trees, at the nice even sidewalks. Wave to your neighbors and think about what a lucky girl you are. What a lucky baby she is. She has a drawer full of clothes already. Francis is a good man. Repeat it to yourself again and again. Go into the shops. Tell them your name and that you just moved here. Everybody loves a new baby.” Lena began to cry.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “And then she saw it so clearly, the whole trajectory of their lives, a twin flare of lights against the gunmetal winter sky: we’re born, we get sick, we die. Beginning, middle, end. She saw her life as if held aloft by her own hand, and in an instant it spun away from her. Where did she want it to land? She was in the middle. The exact middle. Peter too. How could she have failed to notice that the beginning had come to an end?”

25. “And then she saw it so clearly, the whole trajectory of their lives, a twin flare of lights against the gunmetal winter sky: we’re born, we get sick, we die. Beginning, middle, end. She saw her life as if held aloft by her own hand, and in an instant it spun away from her. Where did she want it to land? She was in the middle. The exact middle. Peter too. How could she have failed to notice that the beginning had come to an end?”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “This was the great shock of America, winters that would cut the face off a person, summers that were as thick and as soggy as bogs.”

26. “This was the great shock of America, winters that would cut the face off a person, summers that were as thick and as soggy as bogs.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “He felt lost long before his mother left his life, he wanted to tell her, but it would ruin their dinner, their night. He thought of Frankie and Molly doing their homework with music and talking and laughter in the background. The doorbell ringing, kids stopping by, Kate on the phone, pots boiling over, everything a chaos of love. Then he thought of himself at their ages, alone in a silent house, listening for a creak on the stairs.”

27. “He felt lost long before his mother left his life, he wanted to tell her, but it would ruin their dinner, their night. He thought of Frankie and Molly doing their homework with music and talking and laughter in the background. The doorbell ringing, kids stopping by, Kate on the phone, pots boiling over, everything a chaos of love. Then he thought of himself at their ages, alone in a silent house, listening for a creak on the stairs.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “In the old country someone would have opened a window to let the man’s spirit fly out, but any souls let loose here in the South Bronx would be free only so far as they could bat around four walls until, exhausted, they wilted in the heat and were forgotten.”

28. “In the old country someone would have opened a window to let the man’s spirit fly out, but any souls let loose here in the South Bronx would be free only so far as they could bat around four walls until, exhausted, they wilted in the heat and were forgotten.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “She knew he’d never tell her if things weren’t going well, not over the phone. And he hung up thinking the very same thing.”

29. “She knew he’d never tell her if things weren’t going well, not over the phone. And he hung up thinking the very same thing.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “Isn’t that what every minority in this city has to deal with every single day? Whole groups being judged based on the actions of a few?”

30. “Isn’t that what every minority in this city has to deal with every single day? Whole groups being judged based on the actions of a few?”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “And that all the things that had happened in their lives had not hurt them in any essential way, despite what they may have believed at times.”

31. “And that all the things that had happened in their lives had not hurt them in any essential way, despite what they may have believed at times.”

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Mary Beth Keane Quote: “She wanted a cure for grief and she wanted someone to tell her where to find it.”

32. “She wanted a cure for grief and she wanted someone to tell her where to find it.”

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