Top 250 Emma Donoghue Quotes (2024 Update)
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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.”

251. “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: “Trust me, the island must have water, since we need it to live. This place was set aside for us when the earth was made.”

252. “Trust me, the island must have water, since we need it to live. This place was set aside for us when the earth was made.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “Increase in Reports of Influenza. A masterpiece of understatement, as if it were only the reporting that had increased, or perhaps the pandemic was a figment of the collective imagination. I wondered whether it was the newspaper publisher’s decision to play down the danger or if he’d received orders from above.”

253. “Increase in Reports of Influenza. A masterpiece of understatement, as if it were only the reporting that had increased, or perhaps the pandemic was a figment of the collective imagination. I wondered whether it was the newspaper publisher’s decision to play down the danger or if he’d received orders from above.”

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

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

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “What’s wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?”

255. “What’s wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?”

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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?”

256. “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.”

257. “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: “Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss.”

258. “Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three.” “But.”

259. “In my experience of ward nursing, two shifts are more conducive to sleep than three.” “But.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.”

260. “The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “One couldn’t pick whom to love, thought Anne, The woman beside her was friend and sister and lover and many things besides. One could only hope to recognise love where it grew, and get a grip on it and hold on.”

261. “One couldn’t pick whom to love, thought Anne, The woman beside her was friend and sister and lover and many things besides. One could only hope to recognise love where it grew, and get a grip on it and hold on.”

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

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

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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.”

263. “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.”

264. “Learn even from enemies.”

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

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

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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.”

266. “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: “Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As.”

267. “Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “That’s what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle – the influence of the stars.”

268. “That’s what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle stelle – the influence of the stars.”

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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.”

269. “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: “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.”

270. “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: “The line I found most laughable was the one about lying down for a fortnight; who could afford or manage that without a houseful of servants?”

271. “The line I found most laughable was the one about lying down for a fortnight; who could afford or manage that without a houseful of servants?”

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

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

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.”

273. “To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.”

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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.”

274. “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.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “All this reverential – I’m not a saint.” Ma’s voice is getting loud again. “I wish people would stop treating us like we’re the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I’ve been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn’t believe.”

275. “All this reverential – I’m not a saint.” Ma’s voice is getting loud again. “I wish people would stop treating us like we’re the only ones who ever lived through something terrible. I’ve been finding stuff on the Internet you wouldn’t believe.”

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Emma Donoghue Quote: “The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.”

276. “The truth was quicker than a lie, so I told it.”

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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.”

277. “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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