Learned by Heart Quotes

“Human beings have invented so many new sources of pain”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Can’t the past be a sort of present too, if I plunge into memory and swim like a fish? Since every moment is fleeting, gone as soon as noted, so perhaps past, present, and future are all thin slices of reality, all flickering, all equally (in some sense) true.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“P.S. Do you only frown now, when the rain says my name? Or does it not say it anymore?”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“After all, breakage can be blamed on the brittleness of the China as much as the rough handling”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“We both held on, but I held harder, longer, more desperately”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“It’s a sad story; if it happened to another girl, I’d weep for her”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“That luxurious feeling of indulging gin soft sadness for no good reason, like a girl in a romance”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“A trouble shared is a trouble halved”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Hypotheticals, impossibilities. The dreams of youth rarely come to pass, I remind myself.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Love kills time, time kills love”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“My waking thoughts and dreams are all occupied by you.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“This play from two hundred years ago is somehow blabbing their secrets.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Who wouldn't want to look at you? Perhaps it's envy, perhaps plain worship.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Margaret's qualities are so much more shining than Eliza's. The notion of having to compete to keep her friend makes Eliza contract like a snail into its shell.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“She can't remember why she ever thought she preferred to room alone.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Ah, clearly the vast Subcontinent is only to be allotted two cities, even though Europe's riddled with names.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“No, I remembered you as the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“the only lesson I learned, or at least the only lesson I remember, was you.”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Don't our lives belong to us at all?”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

“Ce n'est pas la mer à boire. (Eliza likes that cold comfort: It's no great matter–you don't have to drink the whole sea.)”
― Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart