Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

…real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing.

Loneliness

Real

Thinking

…sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

Made

Sentences

[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don’t want to actually play with them, they’d rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there’s a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn’t even hear.

Coffee

Cute

Kids

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Different

Novel

Situation

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Castles

Two

Years

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Ideals

Know How

Parent

At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

Doors

Hate

Opposites

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 them by definition, because if you’re trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

Kids

Lying

Simple

Books are the air I breathe, so I don’t notice the seasons.

Air

Book

Breathe

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, ‘There’s a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Children

Eye

Thinking

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Air

Airplane

Anchors

Art

Attention

Beautiful

Blue

Book

Brain

Breathe

Castles

Children

Clouds

Coffee

Come Up

Consuming

Creative

Cute

Dancing

Different

Doors

Drama

Editors

Eight

Emma

Evening

Example

Eye

Fall

Fearless

Feet

Feminism

Film

Four

Goodbye

Grandma

Hands

Hate

Heaven

Home

House

Huge

Humans

Hymns

Ideals

Individuality

Innocence

Insightful

Invisibility

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Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

…real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing.

…sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don’t notice the seasons.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, ‘There’s a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

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