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Top 30 Maggie Shipstead Quotes (2025 Update)

Maggie Shipstead Quote: “How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”

1. “How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Some people are rotten inside, and the rottenness will never go away.”

2. “Some people are rotten inside, and the rottenness will never go away.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.”

3. “People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “When they are alone, lying quietly, he holds her the way a child holds a stuffed animal: for comfort, for security, out of a primate’s urge to cling, to close one’s arms around a warm, soft object.”

4. “When they are alone, lying quietly, he holds her the way a child holds a stuffed animal: for comfort, for security, out of a primate’s urge to cling, to close one’s arms around a warm, soft object.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”

5. “Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Such impossible questions are essential to Great Circle and build to a central preoccupation: “What is the magnitude of one life? And what is the scale of one life versus the scale of this planet we live on? How much can you pack into a life, and what do you choose to make your life about?” Shipstead says, “It’s all of these questions.”

6. “Such impossible questions are essential to Great Circle and build to a central preoccupation: “What is the magnitude of one life? And what is the scale of one life versus the scale of this planet we live on? How much can you pack into a life, and what do you choose to make your life about?” Shipstead says, “It’s all of these questions.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “She had seen too many movies; she did not understand that love was a choice, entered and exited by free will and with careful consideration, not a random thunderbolt sent from above.”

7. “She had seen too many movies; she did not understand that love was a choice, entered and exited by free will and with careful consideration, not a random thunderbolt sent from above.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Her throat is tight with fear. She is afraid of how this man, this stranger, has already changed the sensation of being alive. She is afraid he will slip away.”

8. “Her throat is tight with fear. She is afraid of how this man, this stranger, has already changed the sensation of being alive. She is afraid he will slip away.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence.”

9. “Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “He didn’t love you, darling. What could be more necessary to forgive?”

10. “He didn’t love you, darling. What could be more necessary to forgive?”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “I’m told girls dream of being wives, but wifedom seems an awful lot like defeat dressed up as victory. We’re celebrated for marrying, but after that we must cede all territory and answer to a new authority like a vanquished nation.”

11. “I’m told girls dream of being wives, but wifedom seems an awful lot like defeat dressed up as victory. We’re celebrated for marrying, but after that we must cede all territory and answer to a new authority like a vanquished nation.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “In her journal, in what’s now Namibia, Marian had written: I’d like to think I will remember this particular moon, seen from the particular angle of this balcony on this night, but if I forget, I will never know that I’ve forgotten, as is the nature of forgetting. I’ve forgotten so much – almost all I’ve seen. Experience washes over us in great waves. Memory is a drop caught in a flask, concentrated and briny, nothing like the fresh abundance from which it came.”

12. “In her journal, in what’s now Namibia, Marian had written: I’d like to think I will remember this particular moon, seen from the particular angle of this balcony on this night, but if I forget, I will never know that I’ve forgotten, as is the nature of forgetting. I’ve forgotten so much – almost all I’ve seen. Experience washes over us in great waves. Memory is a drop caught in a flask, concentrated and briny, nothing like the fresh abundance from which it came.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Being bound to people is the heart of life.”

13. “Being bound to people is the heart of life.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “He reminds her of a statue that has been broken and glued back together, its shape the same but its surface spiderwebbed with cracks.”

14. “He reminds her of a statue that has been broken and glued back together, its shape the same but its surface spiderwebbed with cracks.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “When you are truly afraid, you experience an urgent desire to split from your body. You want to remove yourself from the thing that will experience pain and horror, but you are that thing. You are aboard a sinking ship, and you are the ship itself.”

15. “When you are truly afraid, you experience an urgent desire to split from your body. You want to remove yourself from the thing that will experience pain and horror, but you are that thing. You are aboard a sinking ship, and you are the ship itself.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “We make each other miserable, my father had written about my mother before I was born, but we’ve decided we prefer our particular misery and the euphoria of our reconciliations to steady bovine contentment.”

16. “We make each other miserable, my father had written about my mother before I was born, but we’ve decided we prefer our particular misery and the euphoria of our reconciliations to steady bovine contentment.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “We is safer than I when you’re inside it, but it’s a tippy thing, unreliable, ready at any moment to toss you away and leave you exposed as an I after all.”

17. “We is safer than I when you’re inside it, but it’s a tippy thing, unreliable, ready at any moment to toss you away and leave you exposed as an I after all.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “I thought I would become more than I am, but instead I know I am less than I thought.”

18. “I thought I would become more than I am, but instead I know I am less than I thought.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.”

19. “She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “One thing I learned is that you don’t just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them. And then you have to mourn both.”

20. “One thing I learned is that you don’t just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them. And then you have to mourn both.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “The point was to be someone who didn’t treat fear like a god to be appeased.”

21. “The point was to be someone who didn’t treat fear like a god to be appeased.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “I wish to measure my life against the dimensions of the planet.”

22. “I wish to measure my life against the dimensions of the planet.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Does she regret the flight? She decides she doesn’t. She would have peered out of the cockpit and into something bottomless and unfathomable sooner or later. At some point she would have found the edge of her own courage. There is nothing for it but to adjust, be humbled. So she is not exactly who she had thought. So what. She will be someone different.”

23. “Does she regret the flight? She decides she doesn’t. She would have peered out of the cockpit and into something bottomless and unfathomable sooner or later. At some point she would have found the edge of her own courage. There is nothing for it but to adjust, be humbled. So she is not exactly who she had thought. So what. She will be someone different.”

— Maggie Shipstead

Maggie Shipstead Quote: “You always are somewhere, you just have to figure out where. The place you want to go exists. You just have to find it.”

24. “You always are somewhere, you just have to figure out where. The place you want to go exists. You just have to find it.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “The sun circles me like a vulture. I want a respite of stars. Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do it.”

25. “The sun circles me like a vulture. I want a respite of stars. Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. What I have done is foolish; I had no choice but to do it.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “How could anyone see clearly through the innate haze of self-righteousness?”

26. “How could anyone see clearly through the innate haze of self-righteousness?”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “You push on men and eventually you get to the bedrock of it all, which is that they think they’re better than us. And they’re the ones who made this war. I’ve been thinking about that. We get angry and nothing happens. Men get angry, and the whole world burns up. Then when we want to do our part, they’re always trying to keep us out of danger. Because heaven forbid we should be allowed to decide for ourselves. Their worst fear is that one day we’ll end up owning our lives same as they do.”

27. “You push on men and eventually you get to the bedrock of it all, which is that they think they’re better than us. And they’re the ones who made this war. I’ve been thinking about that. We get angry and nothing happens. Men get angry, and the whole world burns up. Then when we want to do our part, they’re always trying to keep us out of danger. Because heaven forbid we should be allowed to decide for ourselves. Their worst fear is that one day we’ll end up owning our lives same as they do.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “I’m only saying it’s easy enough to tell others to be brave when you’ve always chosen the safest path.”

28. “I’m only saying it’s easy enough to tell others to be brave when you’ve always chosen the safest path.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.”

29. “He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “Sometimes, beginnings can be simple.”

30. “Sometimes, beginnings can be simple.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “What is that around your eyes? You look like a raccoon.”

31. “What is that around your eyes? You look like a raccoon.”

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Maggie Shipstead Quote: “In life, beginnings are not fixed but ambient. They are happening all the time, without us noticing.”

32. “In life, beginnings are not fixed but ambient. They are happening all the time, without us noticing.”

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