Emma Donoghue - Stories Quotes

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"Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."

Emma Donoghue

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.

Emma Donoghue

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

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.

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