Margo Lanagan quotes

“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”
-- Margo Lanagan

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.”
-- Margo Lanagan

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“Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.”
-- Margo Lanagan

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“How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.”
-- Margo Lanagan

Source : Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.34, Random House

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“I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.”
-- Margo Lanagan

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“It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.”
-- Margo Lanagan

Source : Margo Lanagan (2012). “The Brides of Rollrock Island”, p.91, Random House

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“Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?”
-- Margo Lanagan

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“You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.”
-- Margo Lanagan

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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“OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.”
-- Margo Lanagan

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“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”

“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”

“Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”