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What does a promise mean, when it's made to a monster?
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Emma Donoghue |
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In childhood, Lib remembered, family seemed as necessary and inescapable as a ring of mountains. One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country.
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Emma Donoghue |
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Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
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motherhood
women
pregnancy
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Emma Donoghue |
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checkup?" "I said"
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Emma Donoghue |
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I'm just preparing the way, just like John the Baptist for Our Lord.
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Emma Donoghue |
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On the whole I am inclined to think that a witch should not kiss. Perhaps it is the not being kissed that makes her a witch; perhaps the source of her power is the breath of loneliness around her.
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witches
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Emma Donoghue |
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It;s called a flea market, because they sell old things that might have fleas living in them.
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Emma Donoghue |
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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 the worry of what to do with all this stuff.
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Emma Donoghue |
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I looked at my stepmother, and she stared back at me, and our eyes were like mirrors set opposite each other, making a corridor of reflections, infinitely hollow.
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Emma Donoghue |
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I don't watch the cartoon planet this morning, I choose a bit of a gardening and a fitness and a news, and everything I see I say, "Ma, is that real?" and she says yeah, 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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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.
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Emma Donoghue |