Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's bee…

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing y…

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're …

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more power…

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding t…

- Ann-Marie Macdonald

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

- Ann-Marie Macdonald