"He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing."

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Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

Emma Donoghue

#Teeth Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.”
“I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.”
“A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.”
“I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”
“WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.”

Source : Darlene Zschech (2001). “Extravagant worship”
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
“Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics

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