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141 " Now I feel bad I didn’t give her the second quarter. Grandma says that’s called having a conscience. "
― Emma Donoghue , Room
142 " She's asleep, she can´t be mad in her sleep, can she? "
143 " Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them. "
144 " The watch has altered the situation that's being watched. "
― Emma Donoghue , The Wonder
145 " All I think when I look at you is hallelujah "
146 " She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet. "
― Emma Donoghue , Slammerkin
147 " In the year 1752 it was announced that the second of September would be followed by the fourteenth. The matter was merely one of wording, of course; time in its substance was not to undergo any change. "
148 " I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own. "
― Emma Donoghue , Life Mask
149 " The girl remembered London as a place of infinite freedom. Now it seemed she'd rented out her whole life to the Joneses in advance. Service had reduced her to a child, put her under orders to get up and lie down at someone else's whim; her days were spent obeying someone else's rules, working for someone else's profit. Nothing was Mary's anymore. Not even her time was hers to waste. "
150 " The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret "
151 " It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin. "
152 " The lightest touch might keep Mary there, rooted in this frozen alley. Instead, she stretched out her hand to the worn red ribbon in Doll's wig. Was it the same one, she wondered, the first one, the ribbon the child Mary had set her eyes and heart on at the Seven Dials, three long years ago? "
153 " Pretending to misremember a name was such a reliable way to annoy. "
154 " Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts. "
155 " Las personas se mueven tanto por el mundo que constantemente se pierden cosas "
156 " She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out. "
― Emma Donoghue , Frog Music
157 " The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that’s only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves. "
158 " So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness. "
159 " Daffy'emu przeszło przez myśl, że najgorsza część ludzkiej natury mogła z łatwością wziąć górę i uderzyć w najmniej spodziewanym momencie. Nawet najbardziej światły człowiek miał niewielką władzę nad czającą się w nim ciemnością. "
160 " Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden. "