Sonya Hartnett Quotes

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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Sonya Hartnett
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Sonya Hartnett
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

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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.

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I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

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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.

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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 -

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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.

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

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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