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> [“The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in the witness protection program without changing your name.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/the-mackinnons-were-always-new-always-almost-just-like-everyone-else/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

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## More by Ann-Marie MacDonald

> [“An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/an-unhappily-married-woman-is-necessarily-a-bad-cook/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/the-world-should-not-be-organized-to-require-heroines-and-when-one-is/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/it-s-his-last-thrill-and-his-last-sting-of-love-as-fresh-and-painful/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/lies-like-that-are-not-a-sin-they-are-a-sacrifice/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/by-fall-they-can-read-it-happened-by-osmosis-the-way-it-ought-to/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/afterwards-in-bed-with-a-book-the-spell-of-television-feels-remote/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/perhaps-god-dropped-them-on-their-heads-before-they-were-born/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/there-are-some-stories-you-can-t-hear-enough-they-are-the-same-every/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/some-people-talk-about-children-wanting-to-be-born-as-though/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/memory-plays-tricks-memory-is-another-word-for-story-and-nothing-is/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/do-you-think-there-s-such-a-thing-as-a-ghost-who-masquerades-as-a/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/the-world-should-not-be-organized-to-require-heroines-and-when-one-is-2/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/i-am-burning-i-have-to-live-i-have-to-sing-i-want-to-transform-myself/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [“No one knows it yet, but Cape Breton is a dress rehearsal for the Great Depression.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/no-one-knows-it-yet-but-cape-breton-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-the/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

> [Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-marie-macdonald/hope-is-a-gift-you-can-t-choose-to-have-it-to-believe-and-yet-to-have/)

[Ann-Marie MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-marie-macdonald/)

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