"Room"

[fiefoe]

The premises of this novel made me highly skeptical, but Emma Donoghue had me pretty much at 'Ma leans out of Bed to switch on Lamp.' The boy's bright, endearing voice recalls strongly of that of the protagonist in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". 

• “I prefer a surprise and me knowing.”
• I stroke Table’s scratches to make them better, she’s a circle all white except gray in the scratches from chopping foods.
  
• While we’re eating we play Hum because that doesn’t need mouths. I guess “Macarena”...
• Plant used to live on Table but God’s face burned a leaf of her off.
  
• Some things are good for us but too much is suddenly bad.
  
• I still don’t tell her about the web. It’s weird to have something that’s mine-not-Ma’s.
• Bouncy Ball loves to get lost in Labyrinth and hide, I have to call out to him and shake her and turn her sideways and upside down before he rolls out, whew.
  
• Bunnies are TV but carrots are real, I like their loudness.
  
• Mary was all surprised, she said, “How can this be?” and then, “OK let it be.”
  
• If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody.
• She says pain is like water, it spreads out as soon as she lies down. She spits toothpaste. “Our friend Zack has an itch on his back,” she says.
• Ma says they make me look homeless, she can’t explain what that is.
  
• Ma plays with Tank too but not as long. She gets sick of things fast, it’s from being an adult.
• I know that already, everything’s breakable.