283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

None of this dirt is yours, I told her. You’re as clean as rain. She kissed me, but on the forehead this time.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

The Times had announced that seven thousand pounds had been raised to send a party of Englishwomen to the Crimea as nurses. That, Lib had thought, with dread but also a sense of daring, I believe I could do that. She’d lost so much already, she was reckless. All.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

When she pulled the ribbon out of her mattress, at first light the next morning, it was brown.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

I’ve seen the world and I’m tired now.

But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When.