283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I must say, in the case of “Room,” both the book and the film, I don’t think being a lesbian author held me back at all.

It depends on the monster, if it’s a real one or not and if it’s where I am.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it’s killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night.

People are locked up in all sorts of ways.

The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that’s only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.

So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.