Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Louise Hartnett 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...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 March 1968
CountryAustralia
lonely
I would always be lonely, but no more alone.
fire fingers
There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.
brother revenge reflection
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 -
dying atoms feels
Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
blue sky bird
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'.
eye bird towns
A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
important crafts doe
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
beautiful world
There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.
fairy-stories trying way
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.
want knows
I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.
people miserable miserable-life
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.
brave scary sometimes
It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.
pain disappointment stupid
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.
hate together strange
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.