Emma Donoghue quotes

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. (Emma Donoghue)
Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me. View quote
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. View quote
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. View quote
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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything. View quote
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Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door. View quote
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Everybody's damaged by something. View quote
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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind. View quote
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The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. View quote
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Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well. View quote
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Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like. (Emma Donoghue)
And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts. View quote
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When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all. View quote
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Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons. View quote
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Stories are a different kind of true. View quote
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. View quote
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost. View quote
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For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. View quote
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Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me! View quote
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When I tell her what I'm thinking and she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other's head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green. View quote
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People are locked up in all sorts of ways. (Emma Donoghue)
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. View quote
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The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. View quote
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The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate. View quote
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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. View quote
Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue - Image
Photo: Katrina Afonso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Irish Playwright
Born: October 24, 1969
Quotes count: 63

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