Joseph Boyden Quotes

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When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.

Joseph Boyden

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

Joseph Boyden

There's something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

Joseph Boyden

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

Joseph Boyden

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

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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.

Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

Born: October 31, 1966 (age 59)

Bio: Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road, won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Known for:

The Orenda (2013)
Three Day Road (2005)
Through Black Spruce (2008)
Born with a tooth (2001)
Wenjack (2016)

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