Slammerkin
Emma Donoghue
Top 10 Best Quotes
“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”
“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”
“For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.”
“The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.”
“I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.”
“Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.”
“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”
“Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that.”
“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?”
“The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.”
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nature, knowledge, flowers, regret, happiness, luck, stories, words, description, pain, antihero, human-nature, life, birds, death, books, depression
