quotes by Ann-Marie MacDonald

"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."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)

"Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall On Your Knees)

"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 (The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel)

"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."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald

"The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees)

"She is why purgatory was invented."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees)

"Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees)

"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 (Fall on Your Knees)