The most most popular passages from Emma Donoghue’s Room – Entertainment Weekly

Author Emma Donoghue received an Academy Award nomination for adapting her own work to the silver screen, penning the screenplay for Room , the Lenny Abrahamson-directed film based on her 2010 novel of the same name.

After winning the coveted People’s Choice Award at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Room Which tells the story of a young mother (Brie Larson) raising her son (Jacob Tremblay) in captivity after being abducted as a teenager, went on to receive nominations major is Donoghue’s screenplay throughout awards season, including recognition from BOTH the BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards ahead of its Best Picture Oscar nod.

Thanks to Amazon, you can see below the most highlighted Kindle passages from Donoghue’s novel, Which laid the foundation for the film que captured hearts and earned Brie Larson her first Oscar nomination.

• “It’s called mind over matter. If we do not mind, it does not matter. “
• ” In the world I notice persons are Nearly always stressed and have on the team. Even Grandma says que Often, but she and Steppa do not have jobs, so I do not know how persons with jobs from the jobs and all the living as well. In Room, me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the gets team spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there’s only a little smear of on each place team Then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. “
• “Also everywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly do not seem to like them, not even the parents of. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, They make the kids do the thing all over again so They can take a photo, but They do not want to play with Them Actually, they’d rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there’s a small kid crying and the Ma of it does not even hear. “
• ” When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, Then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it is not real at all. “
• ” I do not say because of manners, but Actually he’s got it backwards. In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary. “
• ” Before I did not even know to be mad That We can not open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it. When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I’m five I know everything. “
• ” When I was four I did not know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma Told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I’m in the world all the team, I do not know much Actually, I’m always confused. “
• ” ‘The Soul selects her own Society-Then-shuts the Door-’ “
• ” Driving home I see the playground but it’s all wrong, the swings are on the opposite side. “Oh, Jack, that’s a different one,” says Grandma. There’s playgrounds in every town. “Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.”
• “I’ve been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what’s going to hurt.”