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Emma Donoghue quotes: People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots. I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt. I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Really, a novel does not exist, does not happen, until readers pour their own lives into it. If Really, a novel does not exist, does not happen, until readers pour their own lives into it. If
Emma Donoghue quotes: That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others. That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Emma Donoghue quotes: thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It's quite mysterious to thinks now. And sometimes, Little One. It's quite mysterious to
Emma Donoghue quotes: Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing. Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way. I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Good nurses follow rules," Lib growled, "but the best know when to break them. Good nurses follow rules," Lib growled, "but the best know when to break them.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma Donoghue quotes: The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts. Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre. I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
Emma Donoghue quotes: She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult. She gets sick of things fast, it's from being an adult.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Stories are a different kind of true. Stories are a different kind of true.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing. Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!' Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
Emma Donoghue quotes: People are locked up in all sorts of ways. People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I've seen the world and I'm tired now. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I read three books a week. I read three books a week.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand. Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand.
Emma Donoghue quotes: The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate. The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As
Emma Donoghue quotes: I've been writing full-time since I was 23. I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
Emma Donoghue quotes: There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through. There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman. Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all. I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all.
Emma Donoghue quotes: His plastic hand is up and he's waggling his fingers, I pretend I don't see. I'm not going to give him my fingers, I need them for me. His plastic hand is up and he's waggling his fingers, I pretend I don't see. I'm not going to give him my fingers, I need them for me.
Emma Donoghue quotes: My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there. My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.
Emma Donoghue quotes: If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in. If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.
Emma Donoghue quotes: One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like. Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no? Well, they don't make their music just to pass the time," says Jenny, grinning. "Got to want something to sing about it, no?
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.
Emma Donoghue quotes: We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism." He We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism." He
Emma Donoghue quotes: But no, I used all my brave up. But no, I used all my brave up.
Emma Donoghue quotes: The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb. The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.
Emma Donoghue quotes: [ ... ] You're not afraid of monsters, are you?It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am. [ ... ] You're not afraid of monsters, are you?
It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much. Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.
Emma Donoghue quotes: There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes. There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together.Ma Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together.
Ma
Emma Donoghue quotes: I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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. 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.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave. Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Don't worry about it. She keeps saying that but I don't know to not worry. I Don't worry about it. She keeps saying that but I don't know to not worry. I
Emma Donoghue quotes: except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers. except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.
Emma Donoghue quotes: ...everyone goes home in the end. ...everyone goes home in the end.
Emma Donoghue quotes: [She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know." ... "It's unbearable, the not knowing. [She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know."
...
"It's unbearable, the not knowing.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory. Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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? 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?
Emma Donoghue quotes: Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head. Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready. I'll be in Heaven getting your room ready.
Emma Donoghue quotes: When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown. When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Not beautiful, not brilliant, no longer young. Not beautiful, not brilliant, no longer young.
Emma Donoghue quotes: One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
Emma Donoghue quotes: If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up. I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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. 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.
Emma Donoghue quotes: No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different. No, I mean everything feels different, but it's because I'm different.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I think buddy is man talk for sweetie. I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
Emma Donoghue quotes: You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well. You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Was interesting." "Is that what your ma says to say when you don't like something?" She smiles a bit. "I taught her that." "Is she dying by now? Was interesting." "Is that what your ma says to say when you don't like something?" She smiles a bit. "I taught her that." "Is she dying by now?
Emma Donoghue quotes: In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three." "But
Emma Donoghue quotes: taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She
Emma Donoghue quotes: Everyone's got a different story. Everyone's got a different story.
Emma Donoghue quotes: When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
Emma Donoghue quotes: But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When
Emma Donoghue quotes: I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most. I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most.
Emma Donoghue quotes: She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it. She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.
Emma Donoghue quotes: In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't. In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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. 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.
Emma Donoghue quotes: So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing. So then she took me home, or I took her home, or we were both somehow taken to the closest thing.
Emma Donoghue quotes: In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary. In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Who knows what we all are before anything happens? Who knows what we all are before anything happens?
Emma Donoghue quotes: If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage. If you're sorry, folks can tell. No use piling on the verbiage.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake.""You're not tired anymore?"She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK. I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake."
"You're not tired anymore?"
She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.
Emma Donoghue quotes: 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? 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 quotes: You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. You know who you belong to, Jack?"
"Yeah."
"Yourself."
He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.
Emma Donoghue quotes: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter. It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up. Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music. Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well. Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it. Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
Emma Donoghue quotes: It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact. It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations. I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
Emma Donoghue quotes: The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then. Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.
Emma Donoghue quotes: Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them. Perhaps there is no providence, no fate, no grand plan, she thinks now. Perhaps we dig our own traps and lie down in them.
Emma Donoghue quotes: I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by. I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

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