Top 15 Room Emma Donoghue Ma Quotes
#1. When Jack just rescued her Ma's, just succeeded doing the Great Escape:
"Want to go to Bed."
"They'll find us somewhere to sleep in a little while."
"No. Bed."
"You mean in Room?" Ma's pulled back, she's staring in my eyes.
"Yeah. I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
Emma Donoghue
#2. Plate after plate sparkled under Glenda's hands. Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?
George Carlin
#6. Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.
Henry Cavill
#7. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.
Alastair Reid
#8. I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Loretta Young
#9. If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.
Emma Donoghue
#12. This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication
Arun Gandhi
#13. Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.
Emma Donoghue
#14. Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.
Carew Papritz
#15. I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
Laura Benanti
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