Scared is how you’re feeling; brave is what you’re doing.
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I say less. Perhaps because—I suspect—I feel more. If I were to put words to it, we’d be in deep waters indeed.
Emma Donoghue, Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre; from ‘Since First I Saw Your Face’
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn’t have to trawl through someone’s whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
– Emma Donoghue
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“Q: Where do you get your ideas?
A: Impossible to tell. It's like asking someone where they picked up a cold.”
— Emma Donoghue
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Scared is how you’re feeling; brave is what you’re doing.
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It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin.
Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
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There were so many books on so many shelves, I knew I could live to be old without coming to the end of them. The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
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Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
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Scared is how you’re feeling; brave is what you’re doing.
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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
Emma Donoghue / Room
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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
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You had to change to survive.
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