Emma Donoghue, Room Quotes

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Everyone's got a different story.

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

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?

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

...everyone goes home in the end.

You know who you belong to, Jack?”“Yeah.”“Yourself.”He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?""Like what things?""Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.