Actually, Saint Peter was in jail, one time --"
I laugh. "Babies don't go in jail."
"This happened when they were all grown up."
I didn't know Baby Jesus grows up.
Mots clés children-s-logic
When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.
Emma DonoghueI looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.
Emma DonoghueIf he guessed his mistake, if he wanted me back, I thought, let him suffer and work for it as I had worked and suffered. Let him follow me over a mountain of iron and a lake of glass, and wear out three swords in my defense. But at my truest, lying awake trying to count the stars, I knew my prince would not follow. In my mind's eye I saw him in his palace, stroking the gold and silver and starry dresses which were fading now like leaves in winter, weeping for a spotless princess who did not exist, who had drowned in the river of time.
Emma DonoghueNo point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose. . . I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay.
Emma DonoghueI was beautiful, or so my father told me. My oval mirror showed me a face with nothing written on it. I had suitors aplenty but wanted none of them: their doggish devotion seemed too easily won. I had an appetite for magic, even then. I wanted something improbably and perfect as a red rose just opening.
Emma DonoghueChange for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
Emma DonoghueAny subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
Emma DonoghueMots clés fiction
A lot of the world seems to repeat itself
Emma DonoghueMots clés humor inspirational reality-of-life
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.
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