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

    Dying   Atoms   Feels  
  • 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.

    Rain   Night   Love Is  
  • How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

    Important   Doe   Crafts  
  • 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 (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

    Wall   Doors   Desire  
  • You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

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

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

    Eye   Bird   Towns  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

    Eye   Sonya   Let Me  
    Sonya Hartnett (2011). “Of A Boy”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

    Want   Knows  
    Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

    Fire   Fingers  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A small town has as many eyes as a fly

    Eye   Towns   Small Town  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

    Hate   Together   Strange  
  • 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'.

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

    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 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 (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

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

    Water   Despair   Fool  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

    Lonely  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 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.

    Beautiful   Long   Dying  
  • Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

    Matter   Life Is  
    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

    Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.140, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

    Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

    Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
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