"Everybody's damaged by something."

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Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

Emma Donoghue

“The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.”
“I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.201, Univ of California Press
“He has a heart of gold - only harder.”

Source : "Fictional character: Oliver Niles". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.
“If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.”
“I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.”
“The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.”
“I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing
“People misunderstand me.”

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