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Room QUOTES

Room QUOTES

1 " People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

2 " Everybody's damaged by something. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

3 " If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

4 " ... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

5 " Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

6 " People move around so much in the world, things get lost. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

7 " Stories are a different kind of true. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

8 " I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me? "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

9 " Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

10 " Everyone's got a different story. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

11 " This is a bad story.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”
“No, you should,” I say.
“But—”
“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

12 " Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real? "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

13 " ...everyone goes home in the end. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

14 " You know who you belong to, Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“Yourself.”
He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

15 " [E]verywhere 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 thing 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. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

16 " A lot of the world seems to repeat itself "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

17 " 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 thing 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. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

18 " 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

19 " When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything "

― Emma Donoghue , Room

20 " I've seen the world and I'm tired now. "

― Emma Donoghue , Room