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> [I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/i-thought-about-how-stupid-it-is-that-all-of-us-are-born-destined-to/)

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

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> [“How stupid it is that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-hartnett/how-stupid-it-is-that-all-of-us-are-born-destined-to-desire-somebody/)

[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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