Mary Downing Hahn famous quotes

03-28-2025

The rules are very strict...
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Strict
You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Thinking #Decision #Looks
I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Moon #Wind #Sky
Odd, isnâ€™t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some dayâ€¦
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Years #Odd
The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Dark #Water #Dangerous
here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Riddle #Opinionated
A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Real #Stories #Like You
Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Years #Odd #Knows
I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Thinking #Body
I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Body #Might #Stills
You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Scared #Knows
I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Coward #Stills
I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Kings #Thinking #Persons
They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Teenager #Thinking #Ends
I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Writing #Ghost Stories #Feels
I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Doors #People #Age
Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Thinking #Editors #Want
I was terrified of funerals.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Funeral #Terrified
I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Thinking #Editors #People

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