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-gle…

- Margo Lanagan

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

- Margo Lanagan

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. H…

- Margo Lanagan

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

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 …

- Margo Lanagan

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

- Margo Lanagan

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…

- Margo Lanagan

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 th…

- Margo Lanagan

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…

- Margo Lanagan