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.

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.

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.

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.