283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

Daffy'emu przeszło przez myśl, że najgorsza część ludzkiej natury mogła z łatwością wziąć górę i uderzyć w najmniej spodziewanym momencie. Nawet najbardziej światły człowiek miał niewielką władzę nad czającą się w nim ciemnością.

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don’t notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, ‘Beautiful day, wasn’t it?’ and I’ll say, ‘Was it?’ as I won’t have noticed the real world at all.

A strident female voice causes men’s ears to close.

You must feel an almost pathological need – understandably – to stand guard between your son and the world.” “Yeah, it’s called being a mother.” Ma nearly snarls it.

Everyone’s got a different story.

It’s all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can’t go there because we don’t know the secret code, but it’s real all the same. Before I didn’t know to be mad that we can’t open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.

It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin.