Quotes By Author: Emma Donoghue

“Your body – every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. […] The day you first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.”

“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she’d shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”

“The worn soles of Daffy’s boots skidded on the icy stones. He’d been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he’d come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.”

“Your body – every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. […] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.”

“For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.”

“If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could.”

“Everybody’s damaged by something.”

“People don’t always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”