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Helen Macdonald Quotes

born 1970 England

Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer and naturalist, as well as a poet, illustrator, and historian. Macdonald's 2014 memoir H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography of the Year Award.

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It’s true, you can go nuts when you suddenly lose someone you love, you fall off the world. I saw in the goshawk — this ferocious, intense, bloodthirsty, murderous creature — what I felt: rage-filled and angry, living in the present with no thought for the future. My mistake was identifying too much with the bird and forgetting how to be a human.

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