Emma Donoghue

Playwright

1969-10-24

Books by Emma Donoghue

Room
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Kissing the Witch
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The Wonder
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Quotes by Emma Donoghue

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the things all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.
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Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
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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.
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Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
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Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. Anemone, he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. Find me a silk to match that.
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The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.
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Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
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And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?
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In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. Short for Davyd, he said pleasantly.The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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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.
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... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.
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The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.
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It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.
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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
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Everybody's damaged by something.
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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
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