'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
“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
“You always run into something no matter where you go. Turns out you're someplace after all.” — 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
“What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?” — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Doing good 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
“She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Despair Copy Share Image
“But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Humility Copy Share Image
You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
