"I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"

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Emma Donoghue

#Clever Quotes #Hands Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”
“Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.”
“In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.”

Source : "Roy Harper: 'I fought like hell to stay alive'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

Source : Quoted in Roland Flamini, Ava (1983)
“He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.”
“A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.”

Source : Mo Yan (2013). “The Republic of Wine: A Novel”, p.157, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Information is the hardest currency.”

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