Stories are a different kind of true.
Emma Donoghue, Room.
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
“Everybody's damaged by something.”
“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...”
“We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”
“I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”
“There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is a...”
“I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later...”
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, cap...”
