Top 63 Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
#1. Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them
even the blind one
she also looks for them, just in case they too have got lost and need finding.
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#2. Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.
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#4. Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
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#5. 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 need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.
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#6. How unhappy are they who have a gift that's left to germinate in darkness. The pale
plant will sink invisible roots and live whitely off their blood.
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#7. Kathleen is truly and utterly and completely Kathleen in New York. That's what the city does for you if it's meant for you.
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#8. He loved her way: acting casual, working like a Trojan, singing like an angel. Not
"angelically." The voice of an angel. Winged, lethal, close to the sun.
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#9. 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 present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.
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#10. Dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.
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#11. In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
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#12. Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.
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#13. She is so beautiful. My Rose. Finer than sculpture, softer than sand. Rose, I'm kissing you now. Oh God, I have to kiss her. I will die if I don't kiss her, I know that now. It is a fact. I will die. It will kill me.
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#14. I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
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#15. She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.
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#16. You're not bad ... you're just lost."
"I know exactly where I am."
"That doesn't mean you're not lost.
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#18. He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.
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#19. 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 still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
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#21. All memories soften with age, and the good ones are also the most perishable ( ... ) conjured up till they faded to nothing. Like cave paintings by candlelight, she could only glimpse them now in the dark from the corner of her eye.
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#22. Between a mother's eyes and her son's face, there is not air. There is something invisible and invincible. Even though - or because - he will go out into the world, she will never lose her passion to protect him.
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#24. Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.
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#25. It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.
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#26. 'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
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#27. When will she discover that I am from a lesser race of immortals? But the high deities have always needed pixies to persuade them down to earth. When she no longer needs an intermediary, will she still love me?
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#28. It's where she belongs, she craves the caress of the violent shore, to come alive like that once more in a clash of stone and then to die.
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#29. He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.
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#30. 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 of understanding time.
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#31. From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.
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#32. Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. (page 361)
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#33. Ignore them. Don't give them the opportunity to snub you. Carry yourself like you own the place.
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#34. Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.
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#35. I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
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#36. Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
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#37. Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.
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#39. But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.
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#40. Be strong enough to carry the burden of sin that goes with doing the right thing.
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#41. Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness.
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#42. The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
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#43. 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.
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#44. What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?
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#45. 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 you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
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#46. The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
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#47. She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself - literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self - shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit - leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.
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#48. They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.
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#49. I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
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#50. 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.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.
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#52. By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.
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#53. Here is the place called Awake. On the other side of this line is the country of Asleep. And you see this shaded area in between? Don't linger there. It is No Man's Land.
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#54. It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.
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#56. There is love, there is music, there is no limit, there is work, there is the precious sense that this is the hour of grace when all things gather and distill to create the rest of my life. I don't believe in God, I believe in everything.
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#57. My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
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#58. James could do all this because he had made a bargain with himself: he wouldn't try to get killed, nor would he try to survive. He could do all this because he felt terribly sorry for the men he rescued. They harbored the saddest and most foolish desire of all. The desire to go on living.
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#60. It had changed to hate. The hate that she prayed for Jesus to take away. But it was also part of what had kept her going so how could she do without it now? That kind of hate is a species of animated scrap metal. Rusting,
corroding inside, leaching into the vital organs.
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#61. Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to steam her open.
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#62. Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories ... that they're there and they want to be told.
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