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Emma Donoghue é uma escritora nascida em Dublin, Irlanda, onde viveu durante vinte anos, até se mudar para Inglaterra, para estudar em Cambridge, depois para o Canadá e, mais recentemente, para França, onde vive com a sua companheira e os dois filhos.O Quarto de Jack é o seu título mais conhecido, finalista do Booker Prize, mas a sua carreira como escritora conta com alguns bestsellers, como Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Hood e Stir Fry. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Outubro 1969  •  Outros nomes اما داناهیو, אמה דונהיו
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Emma Donoghue: Frases em inglês

“Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing.”

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Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)

“Everybody's damaged by something.”

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Fonte: Room

“Stories are a different kind of true.”

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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.”

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Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it but on mute.
I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

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“I've seen the world and I'm tired now.”

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“I thinkis man talk for.”

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Variante: I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)

“Everyone's got a different story.”

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“The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.”

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“When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.”

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Fonte: Room

“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”

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“This is a bad story.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”
“No, you should,” I say.
“But—”
“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.”

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Fonte: Room

“It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”

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Variante: It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Fonte: Room (novel) (2010)

“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”

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Fonte: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.”

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“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

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“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

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Fonte: Slammerkin

“And 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.”

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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.”

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Fonte: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.”

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Fonte: Room

“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.”

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“You know who you belong to, Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“Yourself.”
He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.”

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

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