Emma Donoghue Short Quotes

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Ma: You're gonna love it.
Jack: What?
Ma: The world.

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

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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

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"Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing."

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I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

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I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

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Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

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

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Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

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Real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter. When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

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The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

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The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

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Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

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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.

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Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

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I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?

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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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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.

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We used to call it her Cinderella complex, because often when she had agreed to go out in the evening she would be seized by panic and announce that she had nothing to wear.

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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.

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