27 Quotes by Mary Downing Hahn

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I’d been in love dozens of times, but it was always the unrequited kind.

I missed Mom, but I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Dad. If I left now, I might not have another chance to get to know him. Soon I’d be in college. After that I’d be on my own. Things wouldn’t be the same then.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself “if only I’d known,” but, of course, you couldn’t have known.

The rules are very strict...

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

People were so fragile, so easily broken, so hard to put back together. “Mr.

I was in a temper fit to blow the lid off a kettle of boiling water. And who wouldn’t be? Since sunup, I’d been doing chores. I’d milked the cow, hauled two buckets of water from the well, fed the chickens, and then fought the hens for their eggs. Now I was down on my knees, sweat-soaked and bug-bitten, yanking weeds from the vegetable patch. My hands were caked with mud, and my nose was burned as red as a strawberry.

As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.