Margo Lanagan

“I had know it and never known it.”

— Margo Lanagan

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

— Margo Lanagan

“How sweet it was to be scolded by such a tiny. ”

— Margo Lanagan

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

— Margo Lanagan

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

“What about the world do you most love? The fact that I'm not here by myself. -from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in…

— Margo Lanagan

“How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of…

— Margo Lanagan

You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make…

— Margo Lanagan

“You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled…

— Margo Lanagan

“The scents of these three, for instance, were so distinct, though they were clearly a family: the dark girl more savory and…

— Margo Lanagan

“The earth’s lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware,…

— Margo Lanagan

“And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down…

— Margo Lanagan

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof…

— Margo Lanagan

“Home is home, no? - whatever layabouts you live with, whatever tempers and timidities. I was glad to glimpse them, and glad…

— Margo Lanagan

“He was fine, and foreign, and he did not belong here. I held him close, not crushing, not waking him, letting him…

— Margo Lanagan

“But Urdda stood firm. 'Where do you come from, sir?' 'I come' - the littlee-man stalked towards her in a way that…

— Margo Lanagan

“A good heart is when a girl that you loved, a girl who has pained you and chosen another instead, places in…

— Margo Lanagan

“...the night is suddenly vaster, colder, clearer. All the stars zing; the mountains glitter; towns and villages gather like bright mould in…

— Margo Lanagan

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I…

— Margo Lanagan

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves,…

— Margo Lanagan

OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that…

— Margo Lanagan

“You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to…

— Margo Lanagan

“She hardly knew what to do, it had been so long since such strong feelings had borne down on her. It was…

— Margo Lanagan

“But heart's desires? My dear, I see by your misery - by this very request you are making - that you know…

— Margo Lanagan

“I knew that place should be my home, but after my night in Noer's mind it seemed a peculiar pile, its streets…

— Margo Lanagan

“All the expressions that are possible crossed its face, as if its thoughts were wise and limitless one moment, daft and animal…

— Margo Lanagan

There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark…

— Margo Lanagan