“No one knows it yet, but Cape Breton is a dress rehearsal for the Great Depression.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Cape breton Copy Share Image
“He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Heart Copy Share Image
“He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Family Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Calm Copy Share Image
“The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Alive Copy Share Image
“She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Despair Copy Share Image
“She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Doing good Copy Share Image
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Humility Copy Share Image
“Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied… — Ann-Marie MacDonald First love Copy Share Image
“Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Adelaide Copy Share Image
It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Body Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Books Copy Share Image
“By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Writer Copy Share Image
