"Quotes"

Bailey 2021-10-18 09:30:40

"There's so much of "place" in the world. There's less time because the time has to be spread extra thin over all the places, like butter. so all the persons say "Hurry up! Let's get going! Pick up the pace! Finish up now!". Ma was in a hurry to go "boing" up to Heaven, but she forgot me. Dumbo Ma! So the aliens threw her back down. Crash! And broke her."


"Grandma.

Yes?

I need scissors.

What for?

For cutting my hair.

Do you really want to do that?

I wanna send it to Ma.

How come?

She needs my strong more than me, so I wanna send it to her. Or you can take it to her.」


"When I was four I don't even know about the world. And now me and ma going to live in forever, and ever. Until we're dead. This is the street in a city, in a country, call America, on the earth. That's the blue and green planet, always spin. So I don't know why we don't fall off. Then, there's outer space. Noboy knows where's heaven. Ma and I have decided because we don't know what we like. We get to try everything. There are so many things out here, and sometimes it's scary. But that's ok. Because it's still just you and me."


"Bye plant, bye chair number one, bye chair number two, bye table, bye wardrobe, bye sink, byebye skylight. Ma say byebye to room.」

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  • Vella 2022-03-19 09:01:02

    Say goodbye to the money, murmur love, please accept the gentlest treatment in the world for the flowers growing in the small room. The boy's panic struggling from the carpet, the cowardice of facing the media with a mask, the bravery of cutting his hair and looking in the mirror, and the relief of saying goodbye to the items in the room one by one, completing a reconciliation with the world. My mother is easily overwhelmed by the question of whether he can give him a better childhood, but I have your teeth and you have my blond hair. All I want is a room with you.

  • Kaleb 2022-03-19 09:01:02

    It almost overlaps with my experience, and even many plots are similar. However, at the end, the little boy went back to the room and said goodbye to everything. I didn't have him so pretentious and even said it. I thought it all in my heart...

Room quotes

  • Ma: You're five and you're old enough to understand what the world there is. You have to understand. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND. We can't keep living like this. You need to help me.

    Jack: I wanna be four again.

  • Ma: [finds a photo of her relay race team] You know who that is?

    Jack: This? That's you.

    Ma: Yeah, that's me. And Stacy Benton and Heather Noel and Laura Sullivan. We were on a relay team. I was the anchor. I was really fast. We did track.

    Jack: Real track?

    Ma: Mmm-hmm. On a field.

    [long pause]

    Ma: You know what happened to them?

    Jack: No.

    Ma: Exactly.

    [puts the photo down and tries to busy herself]

    Ma: Nothing. They just lived their life and nothing happened.