Keith Donohue Quotes

Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

Keith Donohue

• America
• Wonderful
• Grace

Love makes us do wicked things.

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• Love
• Wicked

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Keith Donohue

• Imagine
• Learned
• Otherwise

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

Keith Donohue

• Writing
• Remember
• Reading

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

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• Beginning
• Lose
• Forgetting

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Keith Donohue

• Remember
• Everything
• Coming

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

Keith Donohue

• Past
• Let Go

I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

Keith Donohue

• Heart
• Cities
• Rooms

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Keith Donohue

• Between
• Covers

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

Keith Donohue

• Mean
• Laughter
• Appearance