"Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell……" — 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. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic."
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
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19 Quotes by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there…
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The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
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Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
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Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
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Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to…
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Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
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Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to…
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There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are…
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Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this…
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The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should…
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Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New…
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She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual…
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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