“...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
“It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
“Their next reunion shifted like an oasis on the horizon, and Jude couldn't plot her course. She trudged through her days, haunted by the feeling that real life was happening five thousand kilometers away.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
“She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
“The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Landing
Emma Donoghue
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
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“you have every cause for anxiety. we are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society. there are new times just around the corner”
― László Krasznahorkai, quote from The Melancholy of Resistance
“You are so unbelievably, totally loveable,’ she purred. ‘And I know I’m the only woman who’s ever said that to you.’
‘Absolutely, baby. The very first.’ The first that mattered.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from All He Desires
“THE END IS NOT NEAR
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
WE JUST DIDN'T CARE”
― David Wong, quote from This Book Is Full of Spiders
“I bet the Republic hasn't seen the last of you.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Life Before Legend: Stories of the Criminal and the Prodigy
“Elizabeth lifted her head and glared at him. “I don’t want you to take me home. You’re fired.”
“So you told me. I’m taking you home anyway. You can fire me again when we get there.”
“Okay.” Her head dropped to his shoulder, and she was blissfully quiet on the ride home.”
― Jaci Burton, quote from Changing the Game
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