283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

...everyone goes home in the end.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

You know who you belong to, Jack?”“Yeah.”“Yourself.”He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

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