Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy. Maeve Binchy More Quotes by Maeve Binchy More Quotes From Maeve Binchy I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. Maeve Binchy confident turn ugly stories My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people. Maeve Binchy me wife hope mother When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be. Maeve Binchy being good fine healthy In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Maeve Binchy you mistake beautiful life Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable. Maeve Binchy you rich happy people As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else. Maeve Binchy me bird children people
