19 quotes found
“...everyone goes home in the end.”
“Everyone's got a different story.”
“Everybody's damaged by something.”
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
“A lot of the world seems to repeat itself”
“Maybe Im a human, but Im a me-and-Ma as well.”
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
“People move around so much in the world, things get lost.”
“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 al...”
“... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.”
“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 ou...”
“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?”
“This is a bad story.Sorry. Im really sorry. I shouldnt have told you.No, you should, I say.ButI dont want there to be bad stories and me not know them.”
“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...”
“You know who you belong to, Jack?Yeah.Yourself.Hes wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.”
“[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...”
“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.”
