Emma Donoghue: Likeness

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room (novel) (2010)

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Time

“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.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Idea , Thinking

“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”

Emma Donoghue

Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Feeling

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

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Time

“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Time