283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I don’t know why hurting means getting better.

Me and Ma have a deal, we’re going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine – making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria – and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.

Jack. He’d never give us a phone, or a window. “Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. “We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it.

I’m named after Jane Austen’s Emma, and I’ve always been able to relate to her. She’s strong, confident but quite tactless.

Why are places to eat called coffee shops?” I ask him. “Well, coffee’s the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.” Ma only drinks water and milk and juice like me, I wonder what keeps her going. “What do kids have?” “Ah, kids are just full of beans.” Baked beans keep me going all right but green beans are my enemy food.

I remember manners, that’s when people are scared to make other persons mad.

They’re her book club but I don’t know why because they’re not reading books.

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.