Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ann-Marie MacDonald on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.'
Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.
Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.
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.
'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.
Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness.
Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.
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.
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.
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.
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.
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.
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.
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.