Quotes from work
Room
Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case, and a 2008 court case in which a Pennsylvania woman held her children captive for eight years in a small room similar to the one in the novel.The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize ; was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.The film adaptation, also titled Room, was released in October 2015, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. The film was a critical and commercial success and received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including for Best Picture and winning Best Actress for Larson.
Variant: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.”
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
Variant: I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
Context: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."
