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41 " In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over 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. "
― Emma Donoghue , Room
42 " When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything "
43 " I've seen the world and I'm tired now. "
44 " The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. "
45 " 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. "
46 " It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind. "
47 " I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. "
48 " I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. "
49 " Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like. "
50 " 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. "
― Emma Donoghue , Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
51 " Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. "
52 " There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through. "
53 " 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. "
54 " I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been. "
55 " There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. "
56 " ...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. "
― Emma Donoghue , Landing
57 " I don’t know why hurting means getting better. "
58 " It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers. "
59 " A fast didn't go fast; it was the slowest thing there was. Fast meant a door shut fast, firmly. A fastness, a fortress. To fast was to hold fast to emptiness, to say no and no and no again. "
― Emma Donoghue , The Wonder
60 " Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same. "
― Emma Donoghue , Astray