Everyone's got a different story.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés life stories peoples



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Everybody's damaged by something.

Emma Donoghue


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...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés relationships compromise



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Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés loss break-up



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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

Mots clés acceptance visibility



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...by her family circle. That was my phrase, one that could include me by some stretch of the imagination; 'circle' sounded too symmetrical, but it would have to do.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés family lesbian choice-of-words



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And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés loss grief remembrance



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At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés attraction



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How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés death relationships



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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Emma Donoghue

Mots clés love loss loneliness



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