81 Quotes by Sonya Hartnett

"Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter."

"He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it."

"That is what dying is: a pull to the ground. I am thin as a shadow, yet clotted as dough, my blood as thickset as mud."

"Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground."

"Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple."

"I sensed that he was dead, but wasn't sure if death was forever. It seemed best to stay nearby, in case the chance came to make everything changed."

"He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld."

"Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees."

"If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken."

"I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story."