“ From the book:Fall On Your Knees pg. 124One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ Having experienced her own disappearance, she is conscious of how important it is for people to be seen, so when she looks at them --even the blind one--she also looks for them, just in case they too… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight up, not flat out. They say that the body of water stretching away to… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and al… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ [Mercedes] 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. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ 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. Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees the difference. Such a fine line between a state of grace and a state of mortal si… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ Afterwards, 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 yo… Ann-Marie MacDonald
“ Rats may scamper across it and remain rats. Birds may fly above it and remainbirds; they may alight and tear and eat and prick up their heads to stare motionlessand beady for a moment before pecking a… Ann-Marie MacDonald
