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4e46fab
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It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin.
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Emma Donoghue |
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The lightest touch might keep Mary there, rooted in this frozen alley. Instead, she stretched out her hand to the worn red ribbon in Doll's wig. Was it the same one, she wondered, the first one, the ribbon the child Mary had set her eyes and heart on at the Seven Dials, three long years ago?
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Emma Donoghue |
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14a71c5
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Today is one of the days when Ma is Gone. She won't wake up properly. She's here but not really. She stays in Bed with the pillows on her head. Silly Penis is standing up, I squish him down. I eat my hundred cereal and I stand on my chair to wash the bowl and Meltedy Spoon. It's very quiet when I switch off the water. I wonder did Old Nick come in the night. I don't think he did because the trash bag is still by Door, but maybe he did only ..
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Emma Donoghue |
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2fa921a
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Pretending to misremember a name was such a reliable way to annoy.
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Emma Donoghue |
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9ca1597
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Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.
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Emma Donoghue |
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8f284b7
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Las personas se mueven tanto por el mundo que constantemente se pierden cosas
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Emma Donoghue |
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c4e42e4
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She wants to slap everyone today, to pick up the whole sweat-slick City and punch its lights out.
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Emma Donoghue |
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c304c12
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The hammock hangs on hooks in two trees at the very back of the yard, one is a shortish tree that's only twice my tall and bent over, one is a million times high with silvery leaves.
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Emma Donoghue |
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2201402
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And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
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blood
pain
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Emma Donoghue |
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1ef05bd
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That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
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servant
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Emma Donoghue |
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0b48dac
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So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.
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Emma Donoghue |
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f83b022
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Good-bye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say good-bye," I tell Ma. "Good-bye, 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 out the door."
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Emma Donoghue |
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5acd602
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Daffy'emu przeszlo przez mysl, ze najgorsza czesc ludzkiej natury mogla z latwoscia wziac gore i uderzyc w najmniej spodziewanym momencie. Nawet najbardziej swiatly czlowiek mial niewielka wladze nad czajaca sie w nim ciemnoscia.
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emma-donoghue
ladacznica
slammerkin
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I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. Also everywhere 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 take a photo, but they..
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Emma Donoghue |
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4b3cadd
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Me acuerdo de ser educado, que es cuando la gente tiene miedo de que los otros se enfaden.
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Emma Donoghue |
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3090563
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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 all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then eve..
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society
truth-of-life
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Emma Donoghue |
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5bfa45d
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When I was four I was watching ants walking up Stove and she ran and splatted them all so they wouldn't eat our food. One minute they were alive and the next minute they were dirt. I cried so my eyes nearly melted off.
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Emma Donoghue |
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c8d4f0b
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Jenny wouldn't be dead if she'd never crashed into Blanche on Kearny Street. P'tit wouldn't exist if Blanche had never met Arthur. Facts as hard as rocks, and Blanche has to pick her way among them, find her balance, with an acrobat's cocky smile.
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Emma Donoghue |
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a819e4f
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taking the killers, always two at night because she says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She
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Emma Donoghue |
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3efd543
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Stories are a different kind of true
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Emma Donoghue |
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94103fe
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Remember," she says on the way to the white car, "we don't hug strangers. Even nice ones." "Why not?" "We just don't, we save our hugs for people we love." "I love that boy Walker." "Jack, you never saw him before in your life."
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Emma Donoghue |
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35c5c8b
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Yeah, but for me, see, Jack was everything. I was alive again, I mattered. So after that I was polite." "Polite? Oh, you mean with--" "It was all about keeping Jack safe." "Was it agonizingly hard to be, as you put it, polite?" Ma shakes her head. "I did it on autopilot, you know, Stepford Wife." The"
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Emma Donoghue |
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634e244
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says the headline. Blanche skips over the details she already knows. How bizarre to see what she lived through last night turned into an item tucked between stock prices and Crazy Horse whupping the army at Little Bighorn.
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Emma Donoghue |
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9436e8d
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But the thing is, slavery's not a new invention. And solitary confinement--did you know, in America we've got more than twenty-five thousand prisoners in isolation cells?
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Emma Donoghue |
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654bf27
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Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.
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workaholic
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Emma Donoghue |
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0146a6b
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They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books.
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Emma Donoghue |
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e469d6b
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We go in a skyscraper that's Paul's office, he says he's crazy busy but he makes a Xerox of my hands and buys me a candy bar out of the vending machine. Going down in the elevator pressing the buttons, I play I'm actually inside a vending machine. We go in a bit of the government to get Grandma a new Social Security card because she lost the old one, we have to wait for years and years. Afterwards she takes me in a coffee shop where there's..
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Emma Donoghue |
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was interesting." "Is that what your ma says to say when you don't like something?" She smiles a bit. "I taught her that." "Is she dying by now?"
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Emma Donoghue |
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2392f11
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What this good man had sworn to protect me from was not the same as what I feared. I trusted that he would never let anything hurt me, but he would never let anything touch me either.
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Emma Donoghue |
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718a694
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So much of motherhood is acting.
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Emma Donoghue |
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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 all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter over all the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then eve..
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Emma Donoghue |
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da6c7cd
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Also everywhere 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 take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear. In
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Emma Donoghue |
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00535be
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If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could. We
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Emma Donoghue |
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6d92e51
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It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter." When"
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Emma Donoghue |
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3a81ce6
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It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.
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Emma Donoghue |
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828076b
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Under the thousand crystal candelabras I danced with ten elderly gentlemen who had nothing to say but did not let that stop them. I answered only, Indeed and Oh yes and Do you think so?
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fairytale-retelling
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Everywhere 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 take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults.
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Emma Donoghue |
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90b262b
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My names were hand-me-downs too: girl, the creature, or, most often, you there.
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fairytale-retelling
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Emma Donoghue |
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8a09b61
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except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.
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Emma Donoghue |
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a304d83
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Mary regretted it a little already. Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.
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Emma Donoghue |
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5965076
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We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.
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Emma Donoghue |
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2645481
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He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.
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Emma Donoghue |
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a034f44
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My future was about to happen.
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retelling
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Emma Donoghue |
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09655ec
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A veces estaria bien volver a hacerse pequeno y a veces grande, igual que Alicia.
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Emma Donoghue |