Emma Donoghue: Frases em inglês
“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)
Contexto: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."
“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.”
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)
Variante: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)
Fonte: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Fonte: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
“Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.”
Fonte: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins