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Top 15 Mary Downing Hahn Quotes (2024 Update)

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “The rules are very strict...”

2. “The rules are very strict...”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “People were so fragile, so easily broken, so hard to put back together. “Mr.”

4. “People were so fragile, so easily broken, so hard to put back together. “Mr.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Time doesn’t run backward, you know, and things that have been done can’t be undone, no matter how hard you wish.”

5. “Time doesn’t run backward, you know, and things that have been done can’t be undone, no matter how hard you wish.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Saying something mean and then claiming you’re not yourself doesn’t take the hurt away.”

6. “Saying something mean and then claiming you’re not yourself doesn’t take the hurt away.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “I was in a temper fit to blow the lid off a kettle of boiling water. And who wouldn’t be? Since sunup, I’d been doing chores. I’d milked the cow, hauled two buckets of water from the well, fed the chickens, and then fought the hens for their eggs. Now I was down on my knees, sweat-soaked and bug-bitten, yanking weeds from the vegetable patch. My hands were caked with mud, and my nose was burned as red as a strawberry.”

7. “I was in a temper fit to blow the lid off a kettle of boiling water. And who wouldn’t be? Since sunup, I’d been doing chores. I’d milked the cow, hauled two buckets of water from the well, fed the chickens, and then fought the hens for their eggs. Now I was down on my knees, sweat-soaked and bug-bitten, yanking weeds from the vegetable patch. My hands were caked with mud, and my nose was burned as red as a strawberry.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “To everyone who enjoys ghost stories.”

8. “To everyone who enjoys ghost stories.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “To keep from crying in front of everyone, I ran down the hall, opened the first door I saw, and dashed inside. Too late I realized the room was already occupied. An old man in a wheelchair sat beside a window. Of all the places I might have gone, I’d chosen Great-grandfather’s sanctuary.”

9. “To keep from crying in front of everyone, I ran down the hall, opened the first door I saw, and dashed inside. Too late I realized the room was already occupied. An old man in a wheelchair sat beside a window. Of all the places I might have gone, I’d chosen Great-grandfather’s sanctuary.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.”

10. “As she said, our talents made us different from other people, but not strange.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she’d fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she’d leave if she hurt herself.”

11. “Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she’d fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she’d leave if she hurt herself.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “I was tempted to run down to the kitchen, but the memory of Dad’s words stopped me. “Fearful, nervous, insecure” – wasn’t that what he’d told Aunt Blythe? She’d already seen me behave like a baby once today. I didn’t want to give a repeat performance.”

12. “I was tempted to run down to the kitchen, but the memory of Dad’s words stopped me. “Fearful, nervous, insecure” – wasn’t that what he’d told Aunt Blythe? She’d already seen me behave like a baby once today. I didn’t want to give a repeat performance.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Aunt Blythe went inside to check on Great-grandfather, but I sat on the front steps and watched the sun sink behind the trees across the highway. A little chill crept across my skin. Summer was almost over. Soon my parents would return and I’d go back to Chicago. There would be no more midnight meetings in the attic. No croquet games with Hannah, no boxing lessons from John, no fights with Edward.”

13. “Aunt Blythe went inside to check on Great-grandfather, but I sat on the front steps and watched the sun sink behind the trees across the highway. A little chill crept across my skin. Summer was almost over. Soon my parents would return and I’d go back to Chicago. There would be no more midnight meetings in the attic. No croquet games with Hannah, no boxing lessons from John, no fights with Edward.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Stu asked me to marry him.”

14. “Stu asked me to marry him.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “They’ve never been the kind of parents who ask if you want to drink your milk from the red glass or the blue glass. They just hand you a glass, and that’s that. Milk tastes the same whether the glass is blue or red or purple.”

15. “They’ve never been the kind of parents who ask if you want to drink your milk from the red glass or the blue glass. They just hand you a glass, and that’s that. Milk tastes the same whether the glass is blue or red or purple.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “The bones came out, the bones came out, the bones came out.”

16. “The bones came out, the bones came out, the bones came out.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “Never more to find her where the bright waters flow... her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown.”

17. “Never more to find her where the bright waters flow... her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “The world was so unfair when it came to dying. The best people, the ones you loved the most, died and other people, mean and nasty, lived and went right on being mean and nasty all their lives.”

18. “The world was so unfair when it came to dying. The best people, the ones you loved the most, died and other people, mean and nasty, lived and went right on being mean and nasty all their lives.”

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Mary Downing Hahn Quote: “She was not just old – she was ancient. Bent and bony, no bigger than Selene, her flyaway white hair floated around her head like dandelions gone to seed. She’d wrapped herself in a thick knitted shawl of every imaginable color woven into complex patterns – a sun here, a moon there, stars all over, rivers and trees and birds and animals. A person could look at it all day and still find something he hadn’t noticed before.”

19. “She was not just old – she was ancient. Bent and bony, no bigger than Selene, her flyaway white hair floated around her head like dandelions gone to seed. She’d wrapped herself in a thick knitted shawl of every imaginable color woven into complex patterns – a sun here, a moon there, stars all over, rivers and trees and birds and animals. A person could look at it all day and still find something he hadn’t noticed before.”

— Mary Downing Hahn

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