283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should,” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

Hang on, here's the Beatles, there's an oldie you might like from about fifty years ago,' she says, 'All You Need Is Love.'I'm confused. 'Don't persons need food and stuff?''Yeah, but all that's no good if you don't have somebody to love as well'...

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you’d drained it you’d be reminded you were going to die someday.

When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.

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.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.