Past Quote by Emma Donoghue Download Open image ““In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.”” — Emma Donoghue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Days Wishing Got Wished Past Wish Hadn Wishes Wishful thinking Wishing Wishing Having
“The truth is, I wished for the same thing I always do, when I let myself wish at all. Him.” — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
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“I knew I would wish for that moment back every day of my life, so I lived it with everything I had.” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“... wishing that I were one of those people who say all the right things at all the right times. But I'm not. Instead,… — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
“You're everything I ever wished for. I just didn't wish for much.” — Peter James West Copy Share Image
“I wished for you," he whispered, so quietly that I struggled to hear. "What did that feel like? I've never made a wish in… — GJ Walker-Smith 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
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You can think about it, wonder what went wrong, over analyze the situation but the fact remains... it's the past, just let it go. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
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In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
