Top 30 Keith Donohue Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.”

— Keith Donohue

2. “As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.”

— Keith Donohue

3. “I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.”

— Keith Donohue

4. “Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won’t soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.”

— Keith Donohue

5. “October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”

— Keith Donohue

6. “Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.”

— Keith Donohue

7. “Pretty soon he would be stronger than she was, and bigger, some real violence in his fist. The day was coming when the ordinary demons of adolescence would wrestle with his private devils, and it could be a hell.”

— Keith Donohue

8. “I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.”

— Keith Donohue

9. “The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.”

— Keith Donohue

10. “I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.”

— Keith Donohue

11. “Between the covers, a book can be a sin.”

— Keith Donohue

12. “Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.”

— Keith Donohue

13. “Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.”

— Keith Donohue

14. “The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you’ll be addicted.”

— Keith Donohue

15. “Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.”

— Keith Donohue

16. “I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?”

— Keith Donohue

17. “The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.”

— Keith Donohue

18. “Imaginary friends often leave without warning.”

— Keith Donohue

19. “Why do we believe in things we cannot see?”

— Keith Donohue

20. “He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.”

— Keith Donohue

21. “In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.”

— Keith Donohue

22. “Love makes us do wicked things.”

— Keith Donohue

23. “Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.”

— Keith Donohue

24. “Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.”

— Keith Donohue

25. “Everybody is on something these days. It’s a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.”

— Keith Donohue

26. “The few other shoppers were women like herself. Widows, perhaps, but grandmothers surely, out hunting for birthday gifts or bargains to store away for next winter. They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off.”

— Keith Donohue

27. “The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.”

— Keith Donohue

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28. “He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.”

— Keith Donohue

29. “Never enter a toy shop after midnight.”

— Keith Donohue

30. “It’s only a story.′ As if such words made it less real. But I did not believe him even then, for stories were written down, and the words on the page were proof enough. Fixed and permanent in time, the words, if anything, made the people and places more real than the everchanging world.”

— Keith Donohue

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