Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 87

I've never really learned how to do this. When we hunted, we had people to take care of what we caught.""I thought you hunted with birds.""We did.""So the birds caught the animals, other people cleaned them... When you say 'hunting,' do you really mean 'going for a walk'?
Kate Sherwood
I’m not mad because I’m a woman,” I say. “I’m mad because you’re an asshole.
Margaret Atwood
You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham.
Margaret Atwood
The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as they spread it out flat on the table beside my white remains, an orange stamp—a stamp belonging to the King—would flutter to the floor: It was like something right out of Agatha Christie.
Alan Bradley
I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass."Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight.Pole - "All of them?" Torrin - "Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses."Pole - "Did you just say that?"Torrin - "Yeah," Torrin offered him her hand. "Get over it.
Tanya Huff
No, my eldest brother. He was named after our father. Our parents died when the Romans first invaded, and Stephano then became the "head of the family". " She grimaced. "He and I are like oil and water. Or we were. We get along well enough now, though." She grinned. "But boy did he pitch a fit over the concubine thing. He even called in Uncle Lucian to deal with me."Harper's eyebrows rose. "I'm surprised Lucian bothered to intervene."..."Yes, well..." Drina grimaced. "I'm afraid while I was een as a concubine, I was really playing puppet master with my lover and kind of ruling the country though him. At least until Uncle Lucian caught wind of it and came to give me hell.
Lynsay Sands
Jesus, is Gamache hiring fetuses now?
Louise Penny
If we take the president of GM, they'll make us pay to give him back." (said by a kidnapper)
Owen Laukkanen
You’re practically begging for it, aren’t you?” he murmured.“No.”His chuckle rasped over her senses. “I like begging, Reagan.”“I’m not going to beg.”He was silent for a moment, his fingers still playing, and she wondered if she’d said the wrong thing. Then he said softly, “Damn.
Kelly Jamieson
There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. "I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn't seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes.
Joey Comeau
So we waited. I felt useless. I felt like I was in the way. I wished I had some nervous habits so I could indulge in them.
Moira J. Moore
It's just going to add to him thinking that I am a crazy, wanky, greenie, hybriddriving hippie," I complained."Has he seen your bomb of a car?" Fran asked in disbelief. "Greenpeace arranges a protest every time it leaves your driveway.
Sean Kennedy
All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.
Shulamith Firestone
Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs.
Tara Brown
Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?
Erin Bow
Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
Sara Gruen
What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins
Charles de Lint
Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.
Margaret Atwood
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.
Michelle Rowen
literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally jumped out of his skin.” No, he did not. Though if he literally had, I’d suggest raising the element and proposing the piece for page one. Inserting “literally” willy-nilly reinforces the notion that breathless nitwits lurk within this newsroom. Eliminate on sight—the usage, not the nitwits. The nitwits are to be captured
Tom Rachman
I would never have broken up with you," I said earnestly. "I'm more miserable without you than I am with you." As soon as that sentence came out I groaned, because I knew how bad it sounded.But Declan laughed. "Vintage Simon Murray comment.
Sean Kennedy
‎"If you want that kind of thing, call Nick. His advice is shit, but he really likes to give it.
Kelley Armstrong
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
L.M. Montgomery
Still trying to save the world?” “Always,” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.
Nicole Williams
I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.
Marshall McLuhan
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
Steve Vernon
My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceStation at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clattering to a halt among a scatter of shattered glass. The file spun a little and came to rest, like a compass needle pointing somewhere far off the edge of the map. Looking back from right here and right now I believe I would like to start this story right then—three days after I had just turned fourteen—spending my birthday in jail. - SINKING DEEPER
Steve Vernon
Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.
Wynne Channing
Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
Everything happens at night.The world changes, the shadows grow, there's secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their parents have vacated; second, longer kiss, by the bike stands, swirl of dust around feet in the dry summer air. Awkward words, like secrets just waiting to be broken, the struggle to find the right ones, the heady fear of exposure --- what if, what if --- the joy when the words are returned. Love, in the parkette, while the moon waxes and the clouds pass.Promises at night. Not first promises --- those are so old they can't be remembered --- but new promises, sharp and biting; they almost hurt to say, but it's a good hurt. Dreams at night, before sleep, and dreams during sleep.Everything, always, happens at night.
Michelle Sagara
A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN
Judith Graves
Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight
Natalie Corbett Sampson
She leaned back, closing her eyes and blowing out a thin wisp of smoke. “He was always a good-looking man. Your eyes are from him, the same blue, but you are slimmer of build and have your grandmother’s exotic face rather than his rounder, friendly one. He was a bit of a bounder, as men of his looks are apt to be.”I grinned at this, adding to my mental picture.“He married as often as…” she blinked, laughed, “well, as often as I did, I suppose, though my reasons were infinitely better.
Angela Misri
He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea.
Brooke Burgess
We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make
Natalie Corbett Sampson
She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?
Natalie Corbett Sampson
By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.
L.E. Sterling
In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.
L.E. Sterling
I'm so sorry, bright little thing.""For what, my lord?:" I asked, my voice small and lost in the dim air.His words caught in his throat as he answered. "For not making the world a place where you could choose to fight for yourself.
Lesley Livingston
I love you too much to lose you over something so little. “Roommates With Benefits.
Nicole Williams
We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote's head. We were heading out to stop Satan's son and save the world from certain destruction. Piece of cake.
Terri Clark
He was trying to tell me something."Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
Kelley Armstrong
You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.
Kelley Armstrong
And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something.
Louise Penny
...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
John Geddes
We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!
Marilynn Dawson
...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...
John Geddes
Um. I’m really good at first aid. Like, the best.” He was the god of healing, after all. He’d better be good at fucking first aid!
Rosanna Leo
Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.
Vironika Tugaleva
A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.
Vironika Tugaleva
There's great peace in surrendering to principles
Stefan Molyneux
I can always recognize the fellow wounded.
Suzette Mayr
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
Cheryl Rainfield
I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.
Cheryl Rainfield
I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.
Cheryl Rainfield
If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
Cheryl Rainfield
No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.
Vironika Tugaleva