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Fall on Your Knees

Name: Fall on Your Knees
Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

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.

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

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“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

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“Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

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“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Variant: To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
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