"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."

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Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

Emma Donoghue

#Matter Quotes #Nodding Quotes #Shakes Quotes

“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.”
“The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.”
“In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.”

Source : "Edgar Bronfman, philanthropist and Jewish communal leader, dies at 84". www.jta.org. December 21, 2013.
“...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.”
“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”
“Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?”
“Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.”

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