All Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
- 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 are… Alive
- The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. Fear
- Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. Best
- Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice. Deceit
- Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… All
- Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. Another Word
- Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain. Believe
- 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 way… Every Time
- Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never… Carrying
- The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge. Appear
- Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.'… Been
- She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your… All
- You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the… Ago
- It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless… Attend
- They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are. Forget
- 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… Afterwards
- Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. Anger
- I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that… Air
- You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them. People