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Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairy tales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones — that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

Margaret Mahy

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean — you look at some people — their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

Margaret Mahy

She wrote until she felt empty of words, light and free enough to go properly into the day.

Margaret Mahy

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Margaret Mahy

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

Margaret Mahy

'I suppose it's no use my saying anything... ' he began, which usually meant he was going to have quite a lot to say.

Margaret Mahy

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

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Born: March 21, 1936

Died: July 23, 2012 (aged 76)

Bio: Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.

Known for:

A Lion in the Meadow (1969)
The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance (1984)
Down the back of the chair (2006)
The Great White Man-eating Shark (1989)
The Catalogue of the Universe (1985)

Margaret Mahy on Wikipedia

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