“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”
Source: Fall on Your Knees
Quotes from book
Fall on Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald. The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex Piper Family. It is a story of "inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles." Beginning in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I and ending in New York City, the troubled Piper sisters depend on one another for survival.
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
Source: Fall on Your Knees
Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Source: Fall on Your Knees
