Nicole Brown

“Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

“Well, they don’t make their music just to pass the time,” says Jenny, grinning. “Got to want something to sing about it, no?”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music

“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”
― Laurens van der Post

“It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.”
― Emma Donoghue, Frog Music