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Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.


Emma Donoghue

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... where there's one there's ten.'
That's crazy math.
EMMA DONOGHUE Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
EMMA DONOGHUE Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that matte...
EMMA DONOGHUE If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
EMMA DONOGHUE Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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EMMA DONOGHUE I've seen the world and I'm tired now.
EMMA DONOGHUE You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then...
EMMA DONOGHUE There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound ...
EMMA DONOGHUE People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
EMMA DONOGHUE I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
EMMA DONOGHUE One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people l...
EMMA DONOGHUE You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a...
EMMA DONOGHUE Everybody's damaged by something.
EMMA DONOGHUE In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons...
EMMA DONOGHUE I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
EMMA DONOGHUE The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips...
EMMA DONOGHUE I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
EMMA DONOGHUE Everyone's got a different story.
EMMA DONOGHUE The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole...
EMMA DONOGHUE I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like ...
EMMA DONOGHUE Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you...
EMMA DONOGHUE I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
EMMA DONOGHUE This is a bad story.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”
“N...
EMMA DONOGHUE For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the...
EMMA DONOGHUE Stories are a different kind of true.
EMMA DONOGHUE Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you."

I shake my head till ...
EMMA DONOGHUE You know who you belong to, Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“Yourself.”
He’s wrong, actual...
EMMA DONOGHUE Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevato...
EMMA DONOGHUE When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of ...
EMMA DONOGHUE There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.
EMMA DONOGHUE Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
EMMA DONOGHUE Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.
EMMA DONOGHUE A lot of the world seems to repeat itself
EMMA DONOGHUE I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.
EMMA DONOGHUE In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says t...
EMMA DONOGHUE It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, ...
EMMA DONOGHUE When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping i...
EMMA DONOGHUE [E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. Th...
EMMA DONOGHUE The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be...
EMMA DONOGHUE I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to
fall down.
EMMA DONOGHUE People move around so much in the world, things get lost.
EMMA DONOGHUE Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
EMMA DONOGHUE I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.
EMMA DONOGHUE Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."
Ma says it bu...
EMMA DONOGHUE When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything
EMMA DONOGHUE I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a sin...
EMMA DONOGHUE A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
EMMA DONOGHUE I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting histor...
EMMA DONOGHUE I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I ...
EMMA DONOGHUE I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.
EMMA DONOGHUE Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance o...
EMMA DONOGHUE Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I n...
EMMA DONOGHUE I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
EMMA DONOGHUE The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
EMMA DONOGHUE Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in...
EMMA DONOGHUE For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produce...
EMMA DONOGHUE It's painful to consider anything but writing.
EMMA DONOGHUE The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At ...
DENIS DONOGHUE But we think that there is much more scope to exploit that market, not least because by 2050 India w...
BERNARD DONOGHUE But we think that there is much more scope to exploit that market, not least because by 2050 India w...
BERNARD DONOGHUE The growth level will rise partly because additional flights and routes are being created at a rapid...
BERNARD DONOGHUE Given that the Commonwealth Games are going to be held in India in 2010, we think the interest in sp...
BERNARD DONOGHUE The number one British dish is curry. In this country, we have got over 8,500 curry restaurants. Cri...
BERNARD DONOGHUE Britain is currently number six in the league of outbound visitor's destination.
BERNARD DONOGHUE A professional designer can help you be hospitable with wildlife. For example, attracting butterflie...
LAURA DONOGHUE [People] are willing to go with larger budgets to get big plant material. We're in an instant age wi...
LAURA DONOGHUE I think the whole home beautification trend we've seen over the past decade is making people aware t...
LAURA DONOGHUE The business just seems endless for all of us. Everybody is busy.
LAURA DONOGHUE A hundred (thousand) and up is not out of reach at all.
LAURA DONOGHUE What does USPS stand for? Unbelievably Slow Postal Service
JAMIE MICHAEL DONOGHUE Those who follow do not see anything other than the asshole in front of them.
JAMIE MICHAEL DONOGHUE I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
EMMA ROBERTS Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
EMMA BULL I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most ama...
EMMA ROBERTS I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.
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EMMA GOLDMAN Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is you...
EMMA WATSON We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doi...
EMMA WATSON I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON If not me, who? If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have fai...
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
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EMMA WATSON The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
EMMA WATSON What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
EMMA WATSON I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willi...
EMMA WATSON I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and...
EMMA WATSON If not me, who?
If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin...
EMMA WATSON I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have ama...
EMMA CAULFIELD I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an ...
EMMA WATSON Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his ...
EMMA WILLARD I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people ...
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EMMA STONE His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufactu...
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EMMA ROBERTS I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
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EMMA STONE I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I c...
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EMMA GOLDMAN The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed a...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulat...
EMMA GOLDMAN Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love...
EMMA GOLDMAN If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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EMMA GOLDMAN I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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EMMA CHASE I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the art...
EMMA CLINE It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzi...
EMMA GOLDMAN In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscen...
EMMA GOLDMAN Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested...
EMMA GOLDMAN I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
EMMA THOMPSON Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
...
EMMA LAZARUS No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refus...
EMMA LAZARUS Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
EMMA GOLDMAN The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...
EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
EMMA GOLDMAN Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King...
EMMA GOLDMAN When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
EMMA GOLDMAN Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo...
EMMA GOLDMAN The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And y...
EMMA CARLETON Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...
EMMA GOLDMAN Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
EMMA GOLDMAN To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and wi...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t...
EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the lib...
EMMA GOLDMAN The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a mora...
EMMA GOLDMAN We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ...
EMMA BUNTON Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched t...
EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of ...
EMMA GOLDMAN Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron...
EMMA WATSON As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I ev...
EMMA WATSON I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House...
EMMA STONE We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But...
EMMA BUNTON It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contac...
EMMA WATSON A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear t...
EMMA ORCZY My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a...
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EMMA WATSON I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
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EMMA ISHTA I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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EMMA GOLDMAN Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
EMMA GOLDMAN When we can't dream any longer we die.
EMMA GOLDMAN The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
EMMA GOLDMAN One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing...
EMMA GOLDMAN If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction t...
EMMA GOLDMAN If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
EMMA GOLDMAN The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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EMMA GOLDMAN If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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EMMA GOLDMAN If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not t...
EMMA THOMPSON Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong a...
EMMA GOLDMAN I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
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EMMA WATSON Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the w...
EMMA GOLDMAN Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
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EMMA WATSON You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry,...
EMMA ROBERTS I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me f...
EMMA WATSON I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it...
EMMA WATSON I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don'...
EMMA WATSON If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.
EMMA WATSON I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid ...
EMMA WATSON I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.
EMMA WATSON It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because ...
EMMA WATSON I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make ...
EMMA WATSON I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
EMMA WATSON I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my...
EMMA WATSON I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up do...
EMMA WATSON I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I wan...
EMMA WATSON I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a ma...
EMMA WATSON I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
EMMA WATSON I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure ...
EMMA WATSON I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to ...
EMMA WATSON It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Ha...
EMMA WATSON