Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees (1996)

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The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

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Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

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It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

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They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

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You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

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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.

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Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

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