Emma Donoghue Quotes

Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?""Like what things?""Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

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.

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

Everyone's got a different story.

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.

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.

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.