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

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: cake, child, humor, self

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

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“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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#6

“...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”
― Emma Donoghue

tags: loneliness, loss, love

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#7

“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”
― Emma Donoghue, Astray

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#8

“Who knows what we all are before anything happens?”
― Emma Donoghue, Stir-Fry

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“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, Landing

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#10

“Perhaps we get, not what we deserve, but what we demand.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

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#11

“Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.”
― Emma Donoghue

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“It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...”
― Emma Donoghue

tags: death, grief, loss

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#13

“Jenny was easy to enjoy but hard to know.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

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#14

“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.”
― Emma Donoghue

tags: fiction

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#15

“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, Landing

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“She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.”
― Emma Donoghue, Landing

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#17

“...everyone goes home in the end.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: home

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#18

“How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died.”
― Emma Donoghue

tags: death, relationships

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#19

“All I think when I look at you is hallelujah”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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“The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that’s only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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“It was easy to lose a part of your body, it seemed to her; there were so many ways, it was a wonder anybody reached their death intact.”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

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#22

“Careful.” Why do persons only say that after the hurt? Grandma”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

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#23

“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
― Emma Donoghue

tags: inspirational

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#24

“My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

tags: fairytale, fairytale-retelling

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#25

“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: contentment, happiness, luck

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#26

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestseller, break-barriers, carmaker, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-you-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, happiness, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, strength, struggle, success, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, values, wander, wanderlust, writer

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#27

“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic.

If you’re not willing to take some actions that don’t make sense, having a mediocre life will make perfect sense.”
― Vizi Andrei

tags: life, logic, luck, success

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#28

“With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.”
― Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

tags: answers, chance, libraries, luck, research, serendipity

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#29

“When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.”
― Iveta Cherneva

tags: choreography, crawling, dance, down, improvise, life, luck

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#30

“The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

tags: clapping, fairies, finish, hands, happy, house, in-love, london, luck, madly, sad-kensington-gardens

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