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Emma Donoghue Quote: “As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs.”

251. “As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “I looked at my stepmother, and she stared back at me, and our eyes were like mirrors set opposite each other, making a corridor of reflections, infinitely hollow.”

252. “I looked at my stepmother, and she stared back at me, and our eyes were like mirrors set opposite each other, making a corridor of reflections, infinitely hollow.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.”

253. “I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “A Nightingale!” he marvelled. Ah, so Matron had told him that much. Lib was always shy of introducing the great lady’s name into conversation and loathed the whimsical title that had come to be attached to all those Miss N. had trained, as if they were dolls cast in her heroic mould. “Yes, I had the honour of serving under her at Scutari.” “Noble labour.” It.”

254. “A Nightingale!” he marvelled. Ah, so Matron had told him that much. Lib was always shy of introducing the great lady’s name into conversation and loathed the whimsical title that had come to be attached to all those Miss N. had trained, as if they were dolls cast in her heroic mould. “Yes, I had the honour of serving under her at Scutari.” “Noble labour.” It.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Learn even from enemies.”

255. “Learn even from enemies.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “So. In open ocean, drifting blind now, and with no way to stop moving through the dark. It is Artt who’s brought them to this extremity, and it’s too late for doubt. ‘Never mind. We won’t founder,’ he assures them. ‘We travel in the palm of God’s hand.”

256. “So. In open ocean, drifting blind now, and with no way to stop moving through the dark. It is Artt who’s brought them to this extremity, and it’s too late for doubt. ‘Never mind. We won’t founder,’ he assures them. ‘We travel in the palm of God’s hand.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Is that from the thing you were telling me – red, brown, blue, black?”

257. “Is that from the thing you were telling me – red, brown, blue, black?”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Would have pleased. Such convoluted grammar death required: what tense to describe the hypothetical emotions of a woman who didn’t exist anymore?”

258. “Would have pleased. Such convoluted grammar death required: what tense to describe the hypothetical emotions of a woman who didn’t exist anymore?”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick – that’s where influenza comes from.”

259. “I told her, In Italy, they used to blame the influence of the constellations for making them sick – that’s where influenza comes from.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?”

260. “Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “He’s altered, he knows; he’s brewing an infection of the spirit. These days, when he goes poking around the Plateau in search of anything remotely edible – the last of the bitter spoonwort, campion, dock, stonecrop, spurrey, tree mallow, even flakes of orange lichen, in hopes their colour might carry some vigour – in the back of his mind, Cormac is picking a fight. As he and the Prior keep adding to the walls of the chapel – almost roof-height now – his fury rises too.”

261. “He’s altered, he knows; he’s brewing an infection of the spirit. These days, when he goes poking around the Plateau in search of anything remotely edible – the last of the bitter spoonwort, campion, dock, stonecrop, spurrey, tree mallow, even flakes of orange lichen, in hopes their colour might carry some vigour – in the back of his mind, Cormac is picking a fight. As he and the Prior keep adding to the walls of the chapel – almost roof-height now – his fury rises too.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.”

262. “These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Well, he need be nobody’s Prior anymore. His bonds are broken. No more obligation to teach, guide, direct, and chasten. No human babble to clog up his ears. Artt has this whole island to himself and it’s his alone. The steep land will be his pristine page and he’ll write on it with every step, every prayer, every breath. A bastion of faith, a sentry post where he will man the outer frontier of Christendom: oh, such a place it’ll be now! No one and nothing to bar his way to heaven.”

263. “Well, he need be nobody’s Prior anymore. His bonds are broken. No more obligation to teach, guide, direct, and chasten. No human babble to clog up his ears. Artt has this whole island to himself and it’s his alone. The steep land will be his pristine page and he’ll write on it with every step, every prayer, every breath. A bastion of faith, a sentry post where he will man the outer frontier of Christendom: oh, such a place it’ll be now! No one and nothing to bar his way to heaven.”

— Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue Quote: “A door must be open or shut... You can’t have it both ways.”

264. “A door must be open or shut... You can’t have it both ways.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Maybe history really boiled down to how the hell did we happen to happen?”

265. “Maybe history really boiled down to how the hell did we happen to happen?”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “In her absence I cleaned the dead woman, working gently, as if Ita Noonan could still feel everything.”

266. “In her absence I cleaned the dead woman, working gently, as if Ita Noonan could still feel everything.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “And how will we recognise our island?’ Trian wonders. ‘By a sign of some kind.’ Cormac realises something: the Prior doesn’t know. Trian hesitates as if about to say more, but doesn’t. It comes to Cormac that maybe it’s their fault the boat hasn’t reached the island yet, his and Trian’s. We of little faith.”

267. “And how will we recognise our island?’ Trian wonders. ‘By a sign of some kind.’ Cormac realises something: the Prior doesn’t know. Trian hesitates as if about to say more, but doesn’t. It comes to Cormac that maybe it’s their fault the boat hasn’t reached the island yet, his and Trian’s. We of little faith.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Well so long as you’re awake, does it matter how you were woken?”

268. “Well so long as you’re awake, does it matter how you were woken?”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Sometimes Artt wishes he’d never set eyes on either of these stupid men; had set out alone in search of his island. Could he have managed the voyage on his own? It might have been better to make the attempt, and die trying.”

269. “Sometimes Artt wishes he’d never set eyes on either of these stupid men; had set out alone in search of his island. Could he have managed the voyage on his own? It might have been better to make the attempt, and die trying.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Over a lifetime you packed your brain tight with data, like an overstuffed suitcase, only for it all to fall out in the end.”

270. “Over a lifetime you packed your brain tight with data, like an overstuffed suitcase, only for it all to fall out in the end.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Blame the germs, the unburied corpses, the dust of war, the random circulation of wind and weather, the Lord God Almighty. Blame the stars. Just don’t blame the dead, because none of them wished this on themselves.”

271. “Blame the germs, the unburied corpses, the dust of war, the random circulation of wind and weather, the Lord God Almighty. Blame the stars. Just don’t blame the dead, because none of them wished this on themselves.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “My job wasn’t to cure all Ita Noonan’s ills but to bring her safe through this particular calamity, I reminded myself, to push her little boat back into the current of what I imagined to be her barely bearable life.”

272. “My job wasn’t to cure all Ita Noonan’s ills but to bring her safe through this particular calamity, I reminded myself, to push her little boat back into the current of what I imagined to be her barely bearable life.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “You can’t be a little bit dead. If you’re not in the ground yet, you’re one hundred per cent alive.”

273. “You can’t be a little bit dead. If you’re not in the ground yet, you’re one hundred per cent alive.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “After a while the first lights stand out in the sky. Trian asks, ‘Are they holes, the stars?’ ‘Bodies of cold fire,’ Artt corrects him, ‘fixed in a sphere around the earth. God spins it westwards every day. That’s what makes the air and the clouds move.’ He cranes up, a little dizzy, imagining that giant hand flicking the globe.”

274. “After a while the first lights stand out in the sky. Trian asks, ‘Are they holes, the stars?’ ‘Bodies of cold fire,’ Artt corrects him, ‘fixed in a sphere around the earth. God spins it westwards every day. That’s what makes the air and the clouds move.’ He cranes up, a little dizzy, imagining that giant hand flicking the globe.”

— Emma Donoghue

Emma Donoghue Quote: “How could anyone bear to be a parent? Like contracting to love a werewolf.”

275. “How could anyone bear to be a parent? Like contracting to love a werewolf.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Jenny was easy to enjoy but hard to know.”

276. “Jenny was easy to enjoy but hard to know.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “I tried to remember what it was the old ones used to sprinkle on us children at Halloween in the part of the country where Tim and I had grown up.”

277. “I tried to remember what it was the old ones used to sprinkle on us children at Halloween in the part of the country where Tim and I had grown up.”

— Emma Donoghue

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