Books Quote by Ann-Marie MacDonald

“An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

— 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…

— 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.…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees”

— 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…

— 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.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald