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Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Life is lived on the inside. What’s outside doesn’t matter Picture Quote #1

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn’t? And who wants to read about somebody who never does? Picture Quote #1

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life~? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If I’m desperate, I’ll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won’t read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children’s literature. This has been the bane of my life Picture Quote #1

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it’s just me and the dog. I’ve always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway Picture Quote #1

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 - Picture Quote #1

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’ Picture Quote #1

She was everything that was untouchable Picture Quote #1

A small town has as many eyes as a fly Picture Quote #1

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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes Picture Quote #1

Life is lived on the inside. What’s outside doesn’t matter Picture Quote #1

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world Picture Quote #1

There’s fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch Picture Quote #1

I would always be lonely, but no more alone Picture Quote #1

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? Picture Quote #1

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I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you Picture Quote #1

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render each other mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing Picture Quote #1

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Life is lived on the inside. What’s outside doesn’t matter. (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn’t? And who wants to read about somebody who never does? (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life~? (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes) If I’m desperate, I’ll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won’t read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken. (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. (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children’s literature. This has been the bane of my life. (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it’s just me and the dog. I’ve always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway. (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) She was everything that was untouchable (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) A small town has as many eyes as a fly (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) Life is lived on the inside. What’s outside doesn’t matter (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) There’s fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) I would always be lonely, but no more alone (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 (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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 (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 knowing (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes) How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render each other mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing (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 (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes) A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds (Sonya Hartnett Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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