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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
"Beauvoir was quiet, watching the Chief, taking in the gleam in his eye, the enthusiasm as he described what he'd found. Not the physical landscape, but the emotional. The intellectual.Many might have thought the Chief Inspector was a hunter. He tracked down killers. But Jean Guy knew he wasn't that. Chief Inspector Gama he was an explorer by nature. He was never happier than when he was pushing the boundaries, exploring the internal terrain. Areas even the person themselves hadn't explored. Had never examined. Probably because it was too scary."
"Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event."
"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"
"We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can."
"The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship."
"Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart."
"Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life? Now that I'm not a kid anymore, things always look gray, like a clothesline draped with laundry that's been washed too many times and left to stand in the wind. I guess that's what growing up is, it's a fading photograph."
"People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process."
"Thinking too much about the future, especially in terms of wants and desires, constricts us. First of all, it does little, if anything to achieve goals. Secondly, consider, that what you think you may want tomorrow may not actually be what you want tomorrow. You are ever-changing and constantly evolving. It's OK to want better for the future, but don't expect for the future. Just as introspection is very challenging, so is knowing what is in fact good or best for us and the path there. We may think we need to do things one way, when in fact, we may need to do them in a completely different way."
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
"Worry about your own neck. Don't waste time worrying what others may or may not think. If someone is rude, if they disrespect you, recognize that this is an issue with them and not you. Don't let it change how you behave. Be the same kind, loving and compassionate person as always. Don't fuel the negativity. Always strive to carry peace in your heart, wherever you go. It will help to keep you in a positive frame of mind."
"Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. "Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me."
"After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves."
"They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply."
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
"We are inspired only when we seek to be inspired. Then inspiration can be found in everyone and everything."
"To see the farm is to leave it."
"There's great peace in surrendering to principles."
"People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity."
"When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.Regret. Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret."
"I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...."
"Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone..."
"Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves."
"Those who are blindly led, blindly follow."
"I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been..."
"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."
"Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children."
"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"
"Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough."
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