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> [You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/you-look-back-on-some-little-decision-you-made-and-realize-all-the/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

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## More by Mary Downing Hahn

> [Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/odd-isn-t-it-you-know-when-your-birthday-is-but-not-your-death-day/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/here-there-and-everywhere-an-opinionated-riddle/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-think-more-people-now-have-relationships-with-agents-than-with/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-never-thought-that-people-my-own-age-could-die-let-alone-be/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-was-a-coward-i-m-still-such-a-coward/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-ve-come-to-the-conclusion-that-you-can-t-write-scary-books-unless/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-wished-that-the-chains-would-break-and-the-wind-would-sweep-me-up/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [“Stu asked me to marry him”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/stu-asked-me-to-marry-him/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/they-always-talk-about-teenagers-thinking-their-lives-will-never-end/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-don-t-feel-like-writing-any-more-ghost-stories/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/i-think-it-s-dead-bodies-that-really-haunt-me/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/when-you-re-reading-you-should-pretend-you-re-really-there-because-it/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/there-are-a-lot-of-reasons-to-doubt-things/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/you-look-back-on-some-little-decision-you-made-and-realize-all-the/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

> [“As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-downing-hahn/as-she-said-our-talents-made-us-different-from-other-people-but-not/)

[Mary Downing Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-downing-hahn/)

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