283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

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

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

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

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she's changed several times since then.

Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she know who she was this morning but she's changed several times since then.

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?

Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.

Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.