“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 Heroes Copy Share Image
“It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean.… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Adventure Copy Share Image
“By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Bed Copy Share Image
“Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Enough Copy Share Image
Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or… — Ann-Marie MacDonald About Copy Share Image
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.” ― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Memory Copy Share Image
Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Alive Copy Share Image
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 Failing Copy Share Image
“I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Determination Copy Share Image
“No one knows it yet, but Cape Breton is a dress rehearsal for the Great Depression.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Cape breton Copy Share Image
Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Believe Copy Share Image
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Fear Copy Share Image
“Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Children Copy Share Image
“She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Darkness Copy Share Image
In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Books Copy Share Image
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Anything is possible Copy Share Image
They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Forget Copy Share Image
“To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Faith Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Along Copy Share Image
“As for sin. I honestly can't believe God is so bored or so lecherous as to care how close my body and… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Believe God Copy Share Image
