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Emma Donoghue Quotes: Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
         

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.


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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.



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The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.



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

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



I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.



Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.



It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.



Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.



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

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



I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.



When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.





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We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.



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