Top 9 Quotes by Jennifer McMahon

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Forgiveness, Needs, Sometimes

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Hero, Flaws, Great Hero

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

Jennifer McMahon

Worry, Be You, Right Now

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Jennifer McMahon

Missing, Pieces, Clicks

Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

Jennifer McMahon

Baby, Lying, Skeletons

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Jennifer McMahon

What If, Magic, Special

Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Jennifer McMahon

Stories, Storytelling, Inviting

Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

Jennifer McMahon

Baby, Kings, Crazy