Quotes from Keith Donohue

The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Love is the madness which allows us to believe in magic.

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

O que a memória perde, a imaginação volta a criar.

Why do we believe in things we cannot see?

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Had you not been born, you would not know that it is like to be alive, and without life, death is impossible to understand.

In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.

He could be alone with her, but it was difficult learning to be alone without her.

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

The few other shoppers were women like herself. Widows, perhaps, but grandmothers surely, out hunting for birthday gifts or bargains to store away for next winter. They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off.