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 MacDonaldMemory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldPiece 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 MacDonaldThe world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
Ann-Marie MacDonaldAfterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.
Ann-Marie MacDonald