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.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. - Sonya Hartnett
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
- Sonya Hartnett
A small town has as many eyes as a fly - Sonya Hartnett
A small town has as many eyes as a fly
Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground. - Sonya Hartnett
Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your … - Sonya Hartnett
You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your …
There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world. - Sonya Hartnett
There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. - Sonya Hartnett
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
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… - Sonya Hartnett
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…
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? - Sonya Hartnett
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's he… - Sonya Hartnett
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's he…
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