Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 45

Mom talks about moving to Canada as though my father had requested she start wearing fun hats. "Why not try it?" she thought, instead of "This fucking lunatic wants me to go to a country made of ice and casual racism.
Scaachi Koul
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
Emma Donoghue
By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn’t a dream…It was a memory.
Dani Harper
As I believe—I am, I can, I know.
Lorii Myers
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
Malcolm Gladwell
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Eckhart Tolle
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity
Stefan Molyneux
He tells me he can't believe how bitter he has become, how sour, that all his life he had been one of the most fun, one of the happiest, one of the most joyous people anyone knew, and now he was like a crumpled piece of steel covered in rust. The way he describes himself, a 'crumpled piece of steel covered in rust,' I don't think I'll ever forget those precise words or his voice as he said them.
Jacob Wren
Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.
Janet Turpin Myers
I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.
W.P. Kinsella
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
Steven Pinker
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.
L.M. Montgomery
If we need to compete with anyone, we need to compete with ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to be a better version of ourselves. We need to challenge ourselves to do better every single day.
Akiroq Brost
I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…
Mary MacLane
Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
Rohinton Mistry
With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation.
Elaine Bernard
Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it.
Rosanna Leo
If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.
L.M. Montgomery
Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".
Anne Hines
Understand the poem not the poet.
Christina Strigas
I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me
Tegan Quin
Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.
Neil Peart
It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
Christopher Earle
To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.
S.A. Bouraleh
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.
Josef Škvorecký
I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
Shawna Lemay
He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
L.M. Montgomery
They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing--that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.
Richard Wagamese
Don't be so sure," said Gamache. "It's a little humbling to realize the pedestal isn't quite so high after all."Brebeuf chuckled. "Welcome to earth, Armand. It's a little dirty down here.
Louise Penny
There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.
Malcolm Gladwell
You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.
Allan Dare Pearce
When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love.
Vironika Tugaleva
Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is trying desperately to claw its way back to normal: to pull a funny face, to leap out like a jack-in-the-box, to say "Smile, damn you, smile!
Alan Bradley
Don't apologize for doing what you thought was best. All you can ever do, is your best. Even if that doesn't work out, don't diminish your efforts. Don't diminish your intent. Don't apologize for being human. Don't take on guilt that isn't yours. We are all growing, learning and evolving. Take the lesson forward.
Akiroq Brost
Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex
Margaret Atwood
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...
Saul Bellow
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
W.P. Kinsella
It's amazing how bad you can make the truth sound. As long as you keep it partially recognizable when you spit it out, a crowd will eat it up without even thinking about how hard you chewed on it first.
Courtney Summers
Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.
Bob Proctor
...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...
John J. Geddes
Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
Julien Smith
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
L.M. Montgomery
. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you want won't surface. But ultimately the process is a little like tapping into the unconscious, and can bring with it the ambivalent gratification of rediscovering forgotten selves.Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistance to further production/consumption"? (96)
Moyra Davey
I feel age like an icicle down my back.
Dyson Carter
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.
Margaret Atwood
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
Nathaniel Branden
Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth.
Vinita Kinra
The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.
André Alexis
Throughout the years, I have found people are confused about my love for both Christianity and Paganism. I tell them what was revealed to me while I lay sleeping in the hospital. The All, whether perceived as a God, or a Goddess, or as one being, or even as an energy field, cares only about one thing: Love. Absolute and unconditional love. --High Priestess Enoch
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Prayer changes us because that’s what relationships do.
Jared Brock
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words.
Steven Erikson
When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.
Alex Haditaghi
The beautiful thing about fear is when you run to it, it runs away
Robin S. Sharma
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.
Alberto Manguel
@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.
Maureen Jennings
Isabel Valverde was coming home. The brief, terrible letter from her brother had brought her across five thousand miles of ocean, from the New World to the Old, and during the long voyage she thought she had prepared herself for the worst. But now that London lay just beyond the next bend of the River Thames, she dreaded what awaited her. The not knowing – that was the hardest. Would she find her mother still a prisoner awaiting execution? Horrifying though that was, Isabel could at least hope to see her one last time. Or had her mother already been hanged?
Barbara Kyle
While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.
Ann Voskamp
I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won't.
Margaret Atwood
Passion to a person is what gas is to a car. Without it, you won't go anywhere!
Alex Haditaghi