Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 111

It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.
Sinclair Ross
He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students.
Miriam Toews
Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.
Mark Buchanan
You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had to leave so many behind that you no longer remember what it is you’re missing.
Darrell Drake
Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs.Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick.
Lydia Kwa
Everyone's screaming,I try to make a sound,But no one hears me
Simple Plan
I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.
Nick Bantock
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
Miriam Toews
I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.
D.D. Barant
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
Margaret Atwood
You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.
Margaret Atwood
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
John Geddes
‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.
Patrick Lane
...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
John Geddes
...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...
John Geddes
...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...
John Geddes
... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
John Geddes
...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...
John Geddes
...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...
John Geddes
...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
John Geddes
...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
John Geddes
...you know I wanted a Madonna, not a whore - I made you sacred offering you my words...
John Geddes
...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
John Geddes
...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...
John Geddes
...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...
John Geddes
...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
John Geddes
...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
John Geddes
...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...
John Geddes
...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...
John Geddes
There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
Dani Harper
For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?
Ruth Ozeki
But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.
Margaret Atwood
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
William Chapman
so little of what anything means comes through words.
André Alexis
Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
Kathy Shaidle
When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.
Eckhart Tolle
Kipster is a perfectly valid word,” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….”Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days.
Rebecca McNutt
Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.
Joy Kogawa
I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.
Alexei Maxim Russell
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
Laurence J. Peter
Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be
Alberto Manguel
Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.
Steven Erikson
I love your loins, that's all,' Rachel says quietly. 'And now I love the word itself, and how words change, I love that too. And all the parts of you, I love them. That's all. And I'm not sad,' she whispers, gasping a little at the shock of her own tears, hot and extravagant, tears that catch the light in her lashes before they drop and roll across Zach's thighs, sparkling capsules, kaleidoscopic, the flow dynamic.
Emma Richler
Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.
Robin S. Sharma
Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?
André Alexis
Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.
Sebastien de Castell
Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself, and when the husks are discarded, they lie on the road and rot and disappear. Actions are what lie inside, like the bean.
David Bergen
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
Adam Gopnik
speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.
Margaret Atwood
Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.
Charlotte Featherstone
Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.
Mary Balogh
But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.
Mark A. Rayner
Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!
L.M. Montgomery
For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.
Steven Erikson
He only had the imperfect medium of words.
Sara Gruen
The thing he said aloud did not succeed.
Tony Burgess
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
Alberto Manguel
But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
L.M. Montgomery
When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.
Margaret Atwood
Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
L.M. Montgomery