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Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart Books

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Jane Urquhart is a Canadian novelist known for her distinctive literary style and profound insights into history. Her works often explore the relationship between personal identity, memory, and history, as well as the spiritual landscape of Canada and its people.

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“she remembered the pure joy of making art, how the self connected with the emerging form.”

Book:The Stone Carvers

Source: The Stone Carvers

“Her grief, especially, seemed to have been washed and ironed during the day so that it could be presented to her again each evening, clean and fresh”

Book:A Map of Glass

Source: A Map of Glass

“Two mourning doves somewhere near the decaying barn now resume their lifelong task of attempting to perfect the sound of loss.”

Book:Away

Source: Away

“When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wild spell of the remembered interlude is lost altogether and the memory of sadness claims its rightful place in the mind? And what is it we expect from the sun-drenched past? There is no formula for re-entry, nothing we can do to enable reconstruction.”

Letting Go Memory The Past

Book:The Stone Carvers

Source: The Stone Carvers

“Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.”

Calling Decisions Carving

Book:The Stone Carvers

Source: The Stone Carvers

“And all around them, stretching as far as the market town of Arras, the dank tunnels, like graves, out of which thousands of young men had rushed into the brimstone air.”

Tunnels First World War

Book:The Stone Carvers

Source: The Stone Carvers

“The string of bright beads, he had told her, were to remind her of the twenty brightest days they had spent together, and a promise of twenty more, and then twenty more, infinitely. Even in old age she would be able to call to mind the sound of the word "infinitely", the music it made, coloured by the slight Irish accent in his mouth - a word that whether shouted, sung, or spoken, sounded always like a tender whisper.”

Beads Bright Days Infinitely

Author:Jane Urquhart

“the boards of oaken floors polished to such a degree the furniture was reflected in them like architecture placed at the edge of vast golden lakes.”

Furniture Lake Floors

Book:A Map of Glass

Source: A Map of Glass

“the low light entering the room from the west window always caused the large oval of the table to shine like a lake, a lake with the silver candlesticks floating on its surface.”

Book:A Map of Glass

Source: A Map of Glass

“Fields of grain, elm trees, sumac bushes, pine groves became sources rather than reflectors of light, the soft shapes of hardwood lots seemed as full of sky as the banks of cumulus clouds that floated above them.”

Book:The Underpainter

Source: The Underpainter

“Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another”

Knows Humans Desire Natural Human Beings Elements Racism And Love Destructive Collectives Fragments Love One Another Human Psyche

Author:Jane Urquhart

“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.”

Kind Art Said Earth Artist Art Is Variety Silver Mining Sparkling Uranium Mining

Author:Jane Urquhart

“Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.”

Body Would Be Used Dies Tragedy Affair Your Body Drunk Love Affair Austin

Author:Jane Urquhart

“Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.”

Mind Mistake Longing

Book:Changing Heaven

Source: Changing Heaven

About the Author

Born: June 21, 1949
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 14

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