Akin Quotes

“The whole point of travel is to learn there's no such thing as normal.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“...it was always that way with the dead; they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions. All we could do was remember them, as much as we could remember them, whether it was accurate or not.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Evolution protects those who protect themselves.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“He supposed it was always that way with the dead, they slid away before we knew enough to ask them the right questions.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“It;s called a flea market, because they sell old things that might have fleas living in them.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“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 to worry of what to do with all this stuff.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Like the line he’d read in the Resistance museum: never hate, but never forget.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“It was Anubis who set your heart on the scales against the Feather of Truth, and if your crimes weighed it down at all, it was thrown to the crocodile-faced demoness Ammit like any other scrap of meat. Only the clean-hearted got to walk forever in the Field of Reeds.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Maybe history really boiled down to how the hell did we happen to happen?”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Was genius a weed that sprang up anywhere, or did it need a particular habitat?”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Would have pleased. Such convoluted grammar death required: what tense to describe the hypothetical emotions of a woman who didn’t exist anymore?”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“How could anyone bear to be a parent? Like contracting to love a werewolf.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“...of the emperor whose gorgeous clockwork bird had seized up in the end; on his deathbed he'd called for the dark-feathered nightingale, knowing he never should have chosen a shiny substitute, because nothing but her real song could save him now. Was there any music that would bring back memories once they were lost in the fog? What were we, once our stories had drifted off like smoke?”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“Over a lifetime you packed your brain tight with data, like an overstuffed suitcase, only for it all to fall out in the end.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin

“A door must be open or shut... You can't have it both ways.”
― Emma Donoghue, Akin