"I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books."

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Emma Donoghue

#Book Quotes #Come Up Quotes

“Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf
“Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace - Angels.”

Source : Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”
“There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.”

Source : Neal Bascomb (2005). “The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.”
“Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.”
“I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.”

Source : Source: www.sfcritic.com
“Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.”
“The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a number of highly trained journalists who know how to cover companies, trading, the markets and so on. But almost none have labor reporters anymore, and to my knowledge, none have full-time poverty-beat correspondents. And all of this helps to render invisible the lives and the life stories of tens of millions of Americans.”

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