"You're not supposed to have iron bars around……" — Sonya Hartnett
"You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive."
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25 Quotes by Sonya Hartnett
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I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire…
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There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.
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Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like…
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Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
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A small town has as many eyes as a fly
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A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious…
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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
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My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did…
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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new…
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She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the…
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More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing…
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I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of…
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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