It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers. Also when I tell her what I'm thinking and she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jump into our other's head, like coloring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.
Emma DonoghueI'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep.
Emma DonoghueSometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
Emma DonoghueMots clés words pain depression
Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.
Emma DonoghueMots clés antihero
And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
Emma DonoghueMots clés pain bitterness blood
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 DonoghueI may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
Emma DonoghueMots clés life happiness regret
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