Emma Donoghue: Zitate auf Englisch
“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”
Emma Donoghue Room
Quelle: Room (novel) (2010)
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Emma Donoghue Room
Quelle: Room (novel) (2010)
Kontext: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."
Emma Donoghue Room
Variante: I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
Quelle: Room (novel) (2010)
Emma Donoghue Room
Variante: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Quelle: Room (novel) (2010)
Quelle: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Quelle: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
Quelle: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
