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Keith Donohue Quotes

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

Keith Donohue

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

Tags: autumn, fall, halloween, october

In setting down these recollections of my early years so far removed from their unfolding, I am fooled, as all are, by time itself. My parents, long gone from my world, live again. Memory, which so co...

Keith Donohue

In setting down these recollections of my early years so far removed from their unfolding, I am fooled, as all are, by time itself. My parents, long gone from my world, live again. Memory, which so co...

Tags: book reviews, stolen child

About Author
Keith Donohue may refer to:

Keith Donohue (novelist) (born 1960), American novelist
Keith Donohue (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

Keith Donohue

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

Keith Donohue

Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

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

Keith Donohue

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

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

Keith Donohue

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

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 restorativ...

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 restorativ...

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Keith Donohue

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

Keith Donohue

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.

Keith Donohue

The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.

Love makes us do wicked things.

Keith Donohue

Love makes us do wicked things.

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

Keith Donohue

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

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

Keith Donohue

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.

Keith Donohue

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

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

Keith Donohue

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

Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.

Keith Donohue

Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Keith Donohue

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn’t imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me d...

Keith Donohue

Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once having learned to read, I couldn’t imagine my life otherwise. The indifferent children around me d...

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

Keith Donohue

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their t...

Keith Donohue

Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their t...