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> [“What I know is that billions of people have walked this earth, and billions more will. The vast majority are born without talent and with an ordinariness that is astonishing. Then there's a select few who are given a mighty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/what-i-know-is-that-billions-of-people-have-walked-this-earth-and/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

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## More by Sonya Hartnett

> [Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/strange-how-love-coexists-with-hate-how-they-render-eachother-mute/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“How can you know love, and lose it, and go on living without it, and not feel the loss forever?" "You can't," Feather answered.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/how-can-you-know-love-and-lose-it-and-go-on-living-without-it-and-not/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [Words on the page are never prisoners of the page](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/words-on-the-page-are-never-prisoners-of-the-page/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“A tethered thing is a dead thing...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/a-tethered-thing-is-a-dead-thing/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/affection-makes-fools-always-without-exception-love-digs-a-channel/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/you-re-not-supposed-to-have-iron-bars-around-you-no-one-is-supposed/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/more-than-this-i-believe-that-the-only-lastingly-important-form-of/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“Goodbye, fin,' I say. And I wish I was going with him, to some warm sheltered hideaway in the hills, wish that I, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/goodbye-fin-i-say-and-i-wish-i-was-going-with-him-to-some-warm/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/a-small-town-is-nothing-but-eyes-and-gaping-maw-it-pecks-at-its-own/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“Some things about him are the same as ever. He still looks painfully angelic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/some-things-about-him-are-the-same-as-ever-he-still-looks-painfully/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/i-am-dying-it-s-a-beautiful-word-like-the-long-slow-sigh-of-the-cello/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“We walked into the forests which encircled the town. I have never liked them, their dark throat, their sullen height, their slump-shouldered gloom. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/we-walked-into-the-forests-which-encircled-the-town-i-have-never/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“They thought back on the tales that the soldier had told. They remembered Hazel, the gentle Bethlehem donkey, who used the last of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/they-thought-back-on-the-tales-that-the-soldier-had-told-they/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“Though she'd try to do otherwise, she had never been able to stop cluttering her present with her past. Now somebody she didn't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/though-she-d-try-to-do-otherwise-she-had-never-been-able-to-stop/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

> [“I felt dry as if someone had skinned me. I was not the bones and meat, but the cast-aside skin. The heat had hollowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/i-felt-dry-as-if-someone-had-skinned-me-i-was-not-the-bones-and-meat/)

[Sonya Hartnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-hartnett/)

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