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Sonya Louise Hartnett (born 23 February 1968 in Box Hill, Victoria) is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature.

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I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

Alone, Lonely

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

Burn, Fingers, Fire, Touch

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. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

Born, Disappointment, History, Pain, Stupid, Though

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

Admitted, Bits, Brave, Scary, Sometimes

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Beautiful, Everything, Nothing, World

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

Desire, Desires, Doors, Fences, Wall, Walls

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Love Is, Middle, Moonlight, Night, Rain, Tin

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 heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

Believe, Carried, Children, Future, Heart, Writing

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Bird, Blue, Churning, Except, Sky, Speaks

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 own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

Bars, Down, Fall, Iron, Lonely, Rain

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Gets, Happens, Life, Miserable, Miserable Life, People

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.

Beautiful, Butterfly, Cat, Grow, Sea, Witnessed

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

Page, Pages, Prisoner, Prisoners, Words

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Bird, Eye, Like, Maw, Nothing, Towns

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Eye, Fly, Small, Small Town, Town, Towns

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

Atoms, Composed, Dying, Feels, Lead

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

Ask, Brother, Done, Reflection, Revenge, Yeah

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Eye, Eyes, Hidden, Let Me, Sonya, Things