You know who you belong to Jack? - Yeah. Yourself. - He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. p. 261 Room by E Donoghue

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!