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1. "My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

2. "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 slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

3. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

4. "The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

5. "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 lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

6. "An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

7. "She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

8. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

9. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

10. "As time went by, it mattered less and less that in 1969 a rocket went from Florida to the moon and men walked there. Good men. People's dads. Those were only events, scattered in time. Draw them close, rub them between thumb and finger till they look like larvae, soften like silk, distend to knot, to weave. It takes a village to kill a child." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

11. "For once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied by her new body. This is how the Blessed Virgin visits us. She inhabits our own flesh and makes love out of it. Nothing is ironic in the moment of first love. And Frances is in love. With her body, and what it is bringing forth." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

12. "Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

13. "Lily has never gotton used to being alone. They turn in the water and turn again, then Ambrose lifts her above the surface once more and the creek rains down from her. He lays her gently on her back and her heart breaks. Her tears begin to flow because he is leaving - don't go! He sinks into the water on his back - take me with you! His body turns white again and shimmers into segments until all the pieces disappear. Lily lies face down at right angles to the creek, her head hanging over the edge, arms outstretched towards the spot where she last saw her brother." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

14. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

15. "Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

16. "Jetzt bleibt ihm nur noch er Tod, doch der lässt auf sich warten, weil Mahmoud ein Gewohnheitstier ist und sich daran ewöhnt hat, am Leben zu sein." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

17. "I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

18. "To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

19. "She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees the difference. Such a fine line between a state of grace and a state of mortal sin. What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?" ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

20. "From the book:Fall On Your Knees pg. 124One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

21. "Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

22. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

23. "They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

24. "Under a smoky streetlamp I stood face to face with my beloved and pricked my fingers against the diamond studs of her immaculate shirt front. Being tall, she slipped her hands naturally about my hips and pulled me close. And being bold, I put my mouth on hers and this time went inside and told her all the things I'd been longing to. Dark and sweet, the elixir of love is in her mouth. The more I drink, the more I remember all the things we've never done. I was a ghost until I touched you. Never swallowed mortal food until I tasted you, never understood the spoken word until I found your tongue. I've been a sleep-walker, sad somnambula, hands outstretched to strike the solid thing that could awaken me to life at last. I have only ever stood here under this lamp, against your body, I've missed you all my life." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

25. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

26. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

27. "The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

28. "Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

29. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

30. "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

31. "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." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

32. "He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

33. "She is why purgatory was invented." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

34. "Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the most beautiful things. Garbage cans at the ends of alleyways look like they've been up all night talking with each other. Doorways with peeling paint look like the wise lines around an old feller's eyes. I stop and stare but can't stay because men always think I'm selling something. Or worse, giving something away. I wish I could be invisible. Or at least I wish I didn't look like someone they want to look at. They stop being part of the picture, they get up from their chess game and come out of the frame at me, blocking my view." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

35. "I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their life with me onto the stage where it's so bright and so dark at the same time, just knowing there are three thousand people out there longing to be swept away by the passion that's about to flood out from scarlet curtains, to this I consecrate my body and my soul, I can give no more than all of myself, I feel my heart is a throbbing engine and my voice is the valve, like a wailing train, it has to sing or blow up, there's too much fuel, too much fire, and what am I to do with this voice if I can't let it out, it's not just singing. I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me. I am in love. But not with a person. I am passionately in love with my life." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

36. "Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

37. "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 to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor." ~ Ann Marie MacDonald

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