He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.
Emma DonoghueIn Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.
Emma DonoghueIt was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.
Emma DonoghueA lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.
Emma DonoghueAnd as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.
Emma DonoghueTags: love perceptions beauty-and-the-beast fairy-tales-for-adults
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma DonoghueTags: manners politeness reticence
Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
Emma DonoghueTags: truth certainty uncertainty emphasis exaggeration definitely
[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.
Emma DonoghueTags: parents children hypocrisy kids pretense caring adults neglect cuteness
Who knows what we all are before anything happens?
Emma DonoghueWriting stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
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