Old Nick’s maybe not an all-powerful god but he’s real for sure.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Personified Evil
P
World-Changing Ambition
W
I’m going to change the world.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Beginning of Life
B
Ma says that’s where we came out of when we arrived in the world.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Counting Rituals
C
I count my hundred cereal and eat them by tens.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Loss of Emotion
L
I look at Ma’s face and she’s not even mad, it’s her gone face.
Emma Donoghue – Room
World Introduction
W
I’ve been in the world nineteen hours.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Living Conditions
L
Rug’s all shaggy and food bits in it.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Beyond Wonderland
B
Do you remember how Alice wasn’t always in Wonderland?
Emma Donoghue – Room
Morning Activities
M
We have thousands of things to do every morning, like give Plant a cup of water in Sink.
Emma Donoghue – Room
Anticipation’s Joy
A
The pleasure of anticipation is the most reliable and intense of all; it is, in fact, the only reliable one.
John Lanchester – The Debt to Pleasure