Quotes by Emma Donoghue

About Emma Donoghue:

Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction.
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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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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

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[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 w...

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

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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.

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

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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

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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 ...

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Stories are a different kind of true.

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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

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

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You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue

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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, firefighter...

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A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

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Everyone's got a different story.

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Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

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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.

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The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

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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.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameEmma Donoghue
  • DescriptionIrish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
  • BornOctober 24, 1969
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Historian; Novelist; Playwright
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award