Maeve Binchy Quotations | Page 2

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.