Emma Donoghue Quotes

  • Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • People move around so much in the world, things get lost. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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 dea... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap.... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • ...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. <span class='nobr'></span>
People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

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