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1 " People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. "
― Emma Donoghue , Room
2 " Everybody's damaged by something. "
3 " If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. "
4 " For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. "
― Emma Donoghue , Slammerkin
5 " 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. "
6 " 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. "
7 " ... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. "
10 " People move around so much in the world, things get lost. "
11 " And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations? "
― Emma Donoghue , The Wonder
12 " 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. "
― Emma Donoghue , Frog Music
13 " A change is as good as a rest. "
― Emma Donoghue , The Pull of the Stars
14 " The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. "
15 " Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth. "
16 " The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. "
― Emma Donoghue , Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
17 " Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory. "
― Emma Donoghue
18 " Stories are a different kind of true. "
19 " ...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. "
20 " It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere... "
