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Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.
Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: October 24
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At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.
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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
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I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.
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