Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 7 quotes from Hamnet book by Maggie O’Farrell that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Death
- There is nothing after you die. There is the soil and there is the body and it all comes to nothing.
- Anyone, who describes dying as ‘slipping away’ or ‘peaceful’ has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle. The body clings to life, as ivy to a wall, and will not easily let go, will not surrender its grip without a fight.
Other Quotes
- What is given may be taken away, at any time. Cruelty and devastation wait for you around corners, inside coffers, behind doors: they can leap out at you at any moment, like a thief or brigand. The trick is never to let down your guard. Never think you are safe.
- How is anyone ever to shut the eyes of their dead child? How is it possible to find two pennies and rest them there, in the eye sockets, to hold down the lids? How can anyone do this? It is not right. It cannot be.
- Gardens don’t stand still: they are always in flux.
- You see, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.
- Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns.