Everyone's got a different story.

It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

Vitamins are medicine for not getting sick and going back to Heaven yet.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.