quotes by Keith Donohue

"Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish."
— Keith Donohue

"Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise."
— Keith Donohue

"As I let go of the past, the past let go of me. "
— Keith Donohue (The Stolen Child)

"October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween."
— Keith Donohue

"Some times our thoughts and dreams are more real than the rest of our experience and at other momentsthat which happens to us overshadows anything we might imagine."
— Keith Donohue

"Love makes us do wicked things."
— Keith Donohue (Angels of Destruction: A Novel)

"I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?"
— Keith Donohue

"The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight."
— Keith Donohue

"“To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.”"
— Keith Donohue (The Stolen Child: A Novel)

"“Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn’t imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me didn’t share my enthusiasm for the written word. Some might sit for a good story while told, but if a book had no pictures they showed scant interest.”"
— Keith Donohue (The Stolen Child: A Novel)