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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect."
"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
"If you judge a person that you don't even know by the tattoos they have, the piercings they have, the way they dress or by how they look to you in general, YOU are the one with the issue, not them. Stop the hate. Live and let live."
"Are you living in the moment?"
"He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle - that should be his tone."
"I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness."
"You can be taught to write " you can't be taught to be an artist."
"Dr. Peter Boghossian's A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual for Creating Atheists')"
"How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely..."
"To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity."
"Lose your temper and you lose the fight."
"Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others."
"Don't play his game. Play yours."
"Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.We lived in the gaps between the stories."
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
"What's your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know.Dean's brother-he hadn't been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn't, either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him.'My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there.'Can I call you None for short?"
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
"But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope."
"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"
"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."
"It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many."
"I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled..."
"Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house."
"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."
"One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, how the few who do care about you, marvel at your indifference."
"The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself."
"They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!"
"It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others."
"I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM."
"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
"Each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse..."
"You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves."
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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