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Emma Donoghue Quotes | Quotes said by Emma Donoghue

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #1

    ...by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; 'circle' sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.


  • Emma Donoghue Quote #2

    ...everyone goes home in the end.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #3

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

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #4

    [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 Quote #5

    A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #6

    And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #7

    And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #8

    Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #9

    At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #10

    Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. Anemone, he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. Find me a silk to match that.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #11

    Everybody's damaged by something.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #12

    Everyone's got a different story.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #15

    Goodbye, Room. I wave up at Skylight. Say goodbye, I tell Ma. Goodbye, Room.
    Ma says it but on mute.
    I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #16

    I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #17

    I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #18

    I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #19

    I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #20

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

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #21

    In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. Short for Davyd, he said pleasantly.

    The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #24

    It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #25

    It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #26

    Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #27

    Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #28

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

  • Emma Donoghue Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    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?

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