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Emma Donoghue
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  1. The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) - William Goldman

  2. Everything I know, I know because of love. - Leo Tolstoy

  3. We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again,... - Tim Farrington

  4. She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough... - Jodi Picoult

  5. Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle

More Quotes By Emma Donoghue
  1. People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

  2. Everybody's damaged by something.

  3. If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

  4. For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.

  5. It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

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