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Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes...
Alison McGhee Quotes: Let me tell you that
Living without love is worse than dying, Younger. William T.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Living without love is worse
Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
Alison McGhee Quotes: Little boy, you remind me
If you know how to read, you know how forever. You can't unread.
Alison McGhee Quotes: If you know how to
Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Your heart literally hurts when
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
Alison McGhee Quotes: You are most powerful when
I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
Alison McGhee Quotes: I'm a big State Fair
Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Clara Winter,
Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Water seeks its own level.
Air you breathe holds the breath of all things.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Air you breathe holds the
Are any of us safe? How do we make it through? How, when you know you are going to leave this life whether you want to or not - when you know that you and everyone you love will leave this life - do we make it? I don't want to die.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Are any of us safe?
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?
Alison McGhee Quotes: Wouldn't want to miss a
And she tried to breathe.
Alison McGhee Quotes: And she tried to breathe.
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
Alison McGhee Quotes: I suppose, the natural outgrowth
What, exactly, would you give up?
Alison McGhee Quotes: What, exactly, would you give
We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger. William T.
Alison McGhee Quotes: We all walk around with
What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of rivers and oceans and islands and continents contained within itself? That the brain is divided into two hemispheres, each symmetrical, each perfect, each with its own system of waterways. These people of war should be shown an x-ray of an intraparenchymal hemorrhage, of a hemorrhage in an eighteen-year-old girl's brain, a girl named Ivy. Take a look at that, people of war. See, you should not hurt each other, and this is why. Without you ever even trying, this is what can happen to your body, your beautiful body, and your brain, your beautiful symmetrical brain, and your heart, and your soul.
Alison McGhee Quotes: What is the matter with
Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.
Alison McGhee Quotes: Don't hurt someone who cares
What sorts of books are placed by garbage cans on garbage night in the town of Sterns? Mainly they're old class books, the kind people carry around in boxes in their basements for twenty years and then one day think: I will never again in my entire life open this book and there is no sense in its taking up valuable space in my basement, and they throw them out. Right out by the garbage cans they put them, in cardboard boxes with the bottoms falling out.
Books should not ever be treated that way. It's a sin to treat a book that way. That's what I believe to be true.
Alison McGhee Quotes: What sorts of books are
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
Alison McGhee Quotes: I like to write in
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