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Sonya Hartnett quotes: Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: How stupid it is that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else.

How stupid it is that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.

I've never really been able to tolerate zoos.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: A small town has as many eyes as a fly

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Sonya Hartnett quotes: It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Some things about him are the same as ever. He still looks painfully angelic.

Some things about him are the same as ever. He still looks painfully angelic.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.

She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Sonya Hartnett quotes: But what she feels is sometimes hard to express ... Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.

But what she feels is sometimes hard to express ... Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I want my life to be mystifying, she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

I want my life to be mystifying, she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths.

I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Andrej thought about it - the notion that theworld was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.

Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: It is not asking muchone personout of all the world.

It is not asking much
one person
out of all the world.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

Sonya Hartnett quotes: 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

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 quotes: Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.

Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.