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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.Emma Donoghue
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Everybody's damaged by something.Emma Donoghue
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.Emma Donoghue
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... where there's one there's ten.' That's crazy math.Emma Donoghue
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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.Emma Donoghue
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People move around so much in the world, things get lost.Emma Donoghue
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In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the things all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear. .Emma Donoghue
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Stories are a different kind of true.Emma Donoghue
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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.Emma Donoghue
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I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?Emma Donoghue
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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and- Ma as well.Emma Donoghue
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Everyone's got a different story.Emma Donoghue
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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.Emma Donoghue
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Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real? .Emma Donoghue
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...everyone goes home in the end.Emma Donoghue
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You know who you belong to, Jack?”“Yeah.”“Yourself.”He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.Emma Donoghue
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[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.Emma Donoghue
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A lot of the world seems to repeat itselfEmma Donoghue
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In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thing like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. .Emma Donoghue
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Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"" Like what things?"" Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.Emma Donoghue