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“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Everybody's damaged by something.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Stories are a different kind of true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“[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.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I don’t know why hurting means getting better.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I bang my head on a faucet. “Careful.” Why do persons only say that after the hurt?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Are stories true?
...
They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today.

So they're fake?

No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“She gets sick of things fast, it’s from being an adult.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“[...] You’re not afraid of monsters, are you?”
It depends on the monster, if it’s a real one or not and if it’s where I am.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“No, I mean everything feels different, but it’s because I’m different.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree.

"Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents.

"Can't help you there, I'm afraid."

In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room