You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them. — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Anger Copy Share Image
“Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Calm Copy Share Image
“He would have enough money...for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Family Copy Share Image
“He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Heart 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
“What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?” — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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 Copy Share Image
“You always run into something no matter where you go. Turns out you're someplace after all.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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
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 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 Writer Copy Share Image
It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Body Copy Share Image
“I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks… — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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 Adelaide Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Space Copy Share Image
“For once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied… — Ann-Marie MacDonald First love 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
“I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Buildings Copy Share Image
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Baked goods Copy Share Image
“Lily has never gotton used to being alone. They turn in the water and turn again, then Ambrose lifts her above the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Lily Copy Share Image
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Bird 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 Copy Share Image
“Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Beautiful things 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
“Under a smoky streetlamp I stood face to face with my beloved and pricked my fingers against the diamond studs of her… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Face to face Copy Share Image
“My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Advantage Copy Share Image
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Memories 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
