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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since."
"The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy."
"When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language..."
"I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is."
"Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!"
"Love does not last forever, then?'He asked me the same thing this morning,' she said. 'No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived."
"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."
"Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same child that he is now homeless, he will abandon all foundations. Tell the child he has a home again, he may return to Earth from his travels, but he will never want to see this world again."
"The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature"."
"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."
"You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said."
"All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle."
"Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead."
"The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks, when it breaks we break and the people around us break."
"What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ..."
"Winners in life visualize their success and look forward to reaping and enjoying the rewards of their accomplishments. They revel in their hard-earned victory, and that reinforces their superior level of self-confidence."
"My traumatic experience was life changing."
"If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys."
"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."
"RedheadAll over the houseStrands of copper hairLike filaments from a cobwebCollect.If you and IWere ever to part- For months, perhaps years,I'd be combing out,Brushing or picking upStrands of significance,Traces of youIn my life."
"The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences."
"He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it."
"I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ..."
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
"This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love."
"Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp."
"AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!"
"We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did."
"Fear is the original sin, suddenly said a still, small voice away back-back-back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice."
"I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses."
"Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners.""And to cleaning," Michael said."Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?"
"Perfection doesn't exist here, AWESOME does."
"Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure-giving up does."
"When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly."
"If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.''Is he UNstable?''I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!'She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that."
"The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious."
"Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are.""Worse," Santi sighed."
"These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening."
"You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed..."
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