1. Top Famous Quotes
    2. /
  2. Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Top Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Browse top 32 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Sonya Hartnett.

Favorite Sonya Hartnett Quotes

1. "A small town has as many eyes as a fly" ~ Sonya Hartnett
2. "Tutto cospirava contro di lui, tutto puntava alla sua sconfitta. Premette il corpo contro le sbarre, stanco fino al midollo. Stanco di nascondersi e vivere di sotterfugi, stanco di essere preso in giro dalla fortuna. Stanco di preoccuparsi, di prendere decisioni, di essere responsabile, di essere costretto a resistere. Stanco di vedersi sottrarre le cose. Stanco della tristezza che aveva nel cuore." ~ Sonya Hartnett
3. "Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground." ~ Sonya Hartnett
4. "And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way of being everything at once–grown and sure and clever, young and protected and new." ~ Sonya Hartnett
5. "Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery." ~ Sonya Hartnett
6. "Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking his head. This is all." ~ Sonya Hartnett
7. "I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths." ~ Sonya Hartnett
8. "Some things about him are the same as ever. He still looks painfully angelic." ~ Sonya Hartnett
9. "You always underestimated me. You thought you made me harmless when you gave angelhood to me. You forgot that some angels are warriors. Where there's warriors, there's war. I will fight to the death. It's my duty. I am not afraid." ~ Sonya Hartnett
10. "Goodbye, fin,' I say. And I wish I was going with him, to some warm sheltered hideaway in the hills, wish that I, too, could lie down beside the dog, feel his unbroken heartbeat, smell the dust in his fur. There's only hours. I steel my courage.Surrender." ~ Sonya Hartnett
11. "A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds." ~ Sonya Hartnett
12. "I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it." ~ Sonya Hartnett
13. "Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying." ~ Sonya Hartnett
14. "Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair." ~ Sonya Hartnett
15. "More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future." ~ Sonya Hartnett
16. "No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'." ~ Sonya Hartnett
17. "I would always be lonely, but no more alone." ~ Sonya Hartnett
18. "It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave." ~ Sonya Hartnett
19. "Justin is twenty-four years old: the world will never be more suited to him than it is now, he will never feel more embraced by life or have greater faith in his right to exist. The earth and the oxygen, the cities and lights, the nights and the beaches seem created for him and for those like him." ~ Sonya Hartnett
20. "Though she'd try to do otherwise, she had never been able to stop cluttering her present with her past. Now somebody she didn't know would pack her treasures into plastic bags and carry them away. A life, at its end, is a pile of cloth and paper, and goods that can be bagged and labelled. None of the best things - the voice and the laugh, the tilt of the head, the things seen and felt and spoken - are allowed to stay behind." ~ Sonya Hartnett
21. "...it's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel,...best to have your nerve endings cauterized." ~ Sonya Hartnett
22. "She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace." ~ Sonya Hartnett
23. "My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go." ~ Sonya Hartnett
24. "There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch." ~ Sonya Hartnett
25. "She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong." ~ Sonya Hartnett
26. "On the evening of her eighteenth birthday, Maddy opened her journal and made a list of the jewels and precious stones she'd held. Gold, diamond, emerald; ruby, turquoise, pearl; amber, jade, marble… There were some she had forgotten. Beneath these she listed what she thought were the most perfect tastes and smells. Coffee, cinnamon, peaches; vanilla, honey, basil; baking bread, fresh bread, toasting bread." ~ Sonya Hartnett
27. "Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple." ~ Sonya Hartnett
28. "Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -" ~ Sonya Hartnett
29. "Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing." ~ Sonya Hartnett
30. "Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees." ~ Sonya Hartnett
31. "How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?" ~ Sonya Hartnett
32. "We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds." ~ Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett Quotes Pictures

Sonya Hartnett Quotes
Sonya Hartnett Quotes
Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Today's Quote

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words."
Author: C.S. Lewis

What Did Sonya Hartnett Talk About?

Thin
She
Here
End
Ear
Thou
Ring
Wit
Though
Ways
Tan
Side
Per
Ought
Away
Felt
Head
Hear
Hen
Lie
Low
Old
Air

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Copyright © 2023 Top Famous Quotes. All Rights Reserved. | New Quotes | Topic List | Author List | Privacy Policy | About Us | Contact Us |