Maggie Harcourt > Quotes

“Funny things, words. Big words, small words; words that are bigger on the inside and packed tight with feeling. They can make us fall in love, and they can break our hearts and we’re powerless against them.”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional

“We are not our histories, however deep they cut or however much they scar us. Whatever guilt we feel, rightly or wrongly, whatever baggage we carry, it is not all that we are.

I did not bury myself with my mother.

I am more. I am me.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“Perhaps I’m not made of glass after all. Perhaps I’m made of something stronger.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“Sometimes, the things that are worth fighting for, the things that matter, are the things that could hurt us the most. But they hurt because they make us FEEL.”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional

“We started with a funeral. It ends with a wake. Our wake: Steffan, Jared and Limpet’s. The paradox that somehow worked. This is how we bow out. This is where we end. When we look back– and we will– this will be the moment we see. This is the ending and the beginning. This is all of it. All the mess and all the masks forgotten. All our scars charted and mapped. This is what it always was, what it was always going to be.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“He smells of beginnings. Beginnings set in motion a long time ago and overlooked. Beginnings which no number of endings could bury.”
― Maggie Harcourt, The Last Summer of Us

“If we were in his book, our hands would leave trails of light like sparklers through the sky, glowing against the night; they would crackle and fizz with magic. But we aren't, so they're just mildly clammy and soundtracked by someone throwing up against a lamp post on the promenade (loudly).”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional

“Mum always says it isn't luck, being happy. It's about being brave. Being brave and letting the right people in; the people who make you better just by knowing them, people who make you stronger for loving them.”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional

“I am veritably breathless with anticipation”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional

“That’s why Luke wanted to act. It’s not about hiding behind someone else’s skin at all. It really is about fitting someone else’s soul over your own, letting it creep inside every corner of you, and you into it, until you can’t tell where the join is any more. And you can’t just shrug that off when the lights go down – a piece of that character, that person, that soul, stays with you. You carry the memory of it around with you as part of who you’ve been. The way you might a family…the way – whether I like it or not – I carry fragments of my sisters, my father, my inescapable mother around with me. Suddenly, more than anything, I want to find Luke and tell him that I get it. That I understand. It’s family. Family is the key that unlocks”
― Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical

“I guess everyone's a fan of someone.”
― Maggie Harcourt

“Go..." Dad says wearily. He knows that if I don't get out, she's going to get in. Or try to, anyway.”
― Maggie Harcourt, Unconventional