Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 18

I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.
Courtney Summers
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford
(…) Real time is not a unitary strand distributing homogeneous units of past, present and future in a fixed empirical order, but is rather a complex, interactive, « thick » manifold of distinct yet integrated durations. p22
Sanford Kwinter
Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
Mary Balogh
the idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic
Rupi Kaur
The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.
Jared Brock
You went away. Cause you said that you can't stand me. So I went away. I was sure that you can't stand me. Well I don't think we have to be like this forever. Is there more to life than love and being together?
Tegan Quin
I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.
K.A. Tucker
Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.
K.A. Tucker
It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
Steven Galloway
Because you´re not a one night girl Irish.' Leaning in to place a kiss on my jawline he whispers, 'You're my forever girl.
K.A. Tucker
It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.
Margaret Atwood
It can’t last forever. Others have thought suchthings, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn’tlast forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.
Margaret Atwood
I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.
Charlotte Featherstone
My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?
Mary Balogh
The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor.
Drew Karpyshyn
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
Margaret Atwood
If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.
Emily St. John Mandel
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream ofyesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Kathy Bell
With no one to share suchbeauty the attraction fades.
Kathy Bell
A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one
Kathy Bell
I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn’t work
John Geddes
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.
L.M. Montgomery
. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union.
Nicole Williams
Wake me up from this dream and tell me. Things aren't as bad as they seem.
Sara Quin
It’s not just all physicalI’m the type who will get oh so critical
Tegan Quin
You don't need this prep but I'm going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don't know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and some of you have faces that remind me of what my face looked like when I was younger. I see some of you young people out there and I remember how hard it is to be young. And I remember how hard it is to be rejected the first time when you're young. And so what I want you to do is close your eyes. And I can see you, so don't cheat me here. Close those eyes of yours. Put 'em, real tight. And I want you to imagine the first person who broke you heart. The first person that didn't like you back, the first person that said shitty stuff about you. The first person that dumped you. The first person that changed their phone number because you called them 62 times in one day. The first person that didn't know how good you were and they missed you, they passed you by. Imagine that person and then I want you to sing at the top of your fucking lungs. I want you to sing. I want to heal that with you right now. (sings): Look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive.Look me in the heart and tell me that you wont go. Look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen.
Tegan Quin
Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove.
Lisi Harrison
I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.
Three Days Grace
And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget
Shania Twain
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
Joni Mitchell
Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years
Nicole Williams
I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay
Emily Carroll
Heartache is so physically real that it needs to be recognized as a sickness, an ailment, a cancer of love. A broken heart is a sad, angry, powerful thing that shakes you by the collar and demands your respect, and it's pummeling me into the mattress, shattering me to pieces. It's as real as the actual heart in my chest. In some ways, it's more real because it flows throughout your whole body, wrapping around your bones and your organs and your blood. It's in everything you do, every breath you take.
Karina Halle
We like to think we’re in charge of our own lives, but we ain’t.
Moira Young
...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...
John Geddes
Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.”Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.
A.F. Stewart
I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?
A.F. Stewart
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
Emma Donoghue
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
Rachel McAdams
And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
Emma Donoghue
You’ve got blood on your hands, asshole, and I’m your goddamned UV light.
S.A. Bouraleh
Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.
David Cronenberg
She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.
Margaret Atwood
Whether this blood was daemon, human, or something else, it was still only blood, and blood was only the ink of life.
Gabrielle Harbowy
Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words.
Kurtis J. Wiebe
I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.
Alwyn Hamilton
The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything
Karen Miller
We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.
Eden Robinson
You know how long's the universe. It's seven million freeways side by side. You know how high. So high the moon just falls. But little punks, you still know the hardcore of the universe. It's cause you're hardcore too. You're made of pure universe, under your bones. And nothing ever starts shit by meaning to. We meant to break down the amerikan dream throwing bottles. All we broke was bottles. What worked was one stolen handful of flax seed. All ages shows in the highschool parkade, and the keys to the bandroom door. Their dream was a joke anyway. What worked was a nother joke.
Noah Wareness
Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own good. And he treasured her just as well for those tales he was sure she'd already spun.
Darrell Drake
Being always transcends appearance---that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.
William Paul Young
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.
Margaret Atwood
Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.
Babara Coloroso
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
James K.A. Smith
Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now.
Ann Voskamp
Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
Brian Tracy
His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.
Carol Shields