Famous Emma Donoghue Quotes

  • That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others. – Emma Donoghue

    That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.– Emma Donoghue

  • You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. – Emma Donoghue

    You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.– Emma Donoghue

  • I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn’t add up to an hour. – Emma Donoghue

    I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn’t add up to an hour.– Emma Donoghue

  • Nowadays ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself. – Emma Donoghue

    Nowadays ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.– Emma Donoghue

  • Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. – Emma Donoghue

    Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.– Emma Donoghue

  • In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t. – Emma Donoghue

    In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t.– Emma Donoghue

  • …real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing. – Emma Donoghue

    …real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing.– Emma Donoghue

  • Stories are a different kind of true. – Emma Donoghue

    Stories are a different kind of true.– Emma Donoghue

  • Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory. – Emma Donoghue

    Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory.– Emma Donoghue

  • The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. – Emma Donoghue

    The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.– Emma Donoghue