“When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing;… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Their next reunion shifted like an oasis on the horizon, and Jude couldn't plot her course. She trudged through her days, haunted… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“People have no idea of the things that don't happen to them—the lives they're not living, the deaths stalking them—and thank Christ… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
With my first book, I was hired to write a draft of the script. I was so young and less confident. They put me… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other.… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
