Mary Downing Hahn Quotes

• A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Real, Stories, Like You

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• 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

  Mary Downing Hahn (2009). “The Dead Man in Indian Creek”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Mary Downing Hahn (2010). “The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Thinking, Body

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• I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Book, Writing, Scary

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• 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, Clouds, Wind

  Mary Downing Hahn (1983). “Daphne's Book”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Scared, Knows

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• There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Doubt, Reason

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• I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Kings, Thinking, Persons

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• 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

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• I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Coward, Stills

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• The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Dark, Water, Dangerous

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• The rules are very strict.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Strict

  Mary Downing Hahn (2007). “The Old Willis Place”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

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• here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Riddle, Opinionated

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• I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Writing, Ghost Stories, Feels

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• 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

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• Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Thinking, Editors, Want

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• I was terrified of funerals.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Funeral, Terrified

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• 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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