Canadian Novelist Quotes

The language of her grief is silence. She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances. Over the years, silence within her small body has grown large and powerful.

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

The history of Acadians has never been written down as see by its people. Its been written by historians from outside. These historians sometimes had reason not to write the truth or didn't know the truth or didn't know the small things which become the big things, the inside story, what we in France call la petit histoire. History is made by the kings and lords, But la petit histoire is made by the people.

Antonine Maillet

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

R. Scott Bakker

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Josip Novakovich

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Sarah Mlynowski

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.

Alexei Maxim Russell

Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.