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“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.”

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“The trees were making their spring sounds, popping and cracking, the snow blowing by and whooshing against her skin, and spring birds making their small and distinctive calls”

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Book:Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

Source: Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“The question, then, is not whether boy should meet girl in Winnipeg or in New York; instead it is, What happens in Canadian literature when boy meets girl? And what sort of boy, and what sort of girl? If you've got this far, you may predict that when boy meets girl she gets cancer and he gets hit by a meteorite. . . .”

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Book:Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Source: Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

“We didn’t talk much. The things I’d needed to say before didn’t matter anymore and what mattered now was too hard to hear. So Jamie didn’t tell me he’d be gone before Christmas, or that I was the first girl he ever loved. I didn’t tell him I had wanted it to be him all along, or that he was my first everything. Instead, we sat shivering and holding hands, and let ourselves believe we were lucky just a little while longer.”

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Book:Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

Source: Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

“No matter what else we do with our lives, Maggie, music will soothe and calm us. Music will last, and outlast, and cast its spell and enter our souls and connect us across time and distance. We must believe this, both of us, all of us.”

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Book:Tell

Source: Tell

“Every person was born with a set of spiritual instructions or understandings, my girl. It’s what we do with it that defines us as human beings.”

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Book:Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

Source: Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.”

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Book:Little Cat

Source: Little Cat

“إذا خفيت عنا الحكمة في العذاب أحيانا.. فلأننا لا ندرك كل شيء ولا نعرف كل شيء، ولا ندرك من القصة إلا تلك المرحلة المحدودة بين قوسين اسمها الدنيا.. أما ما قبل ذلك ومابعد ذلك فهو بالنسبة لنا غيب محجوب.. ولذا يجب أن نصمت في احترام ولانطلق الأحكام..”

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Book:رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

Source: رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

“He brushed a fingertip over his lips and signalled across the room. "Now I’m going to take you home." But it meant something else, too. Grania’s cheeks reddened furiously when he made this public-private display, though no one else had noticed.”

Book:Deafening

Source: Deafening

“Say your fears into the dark, my darling, and they will go away.”

Book:Deafening

Source: Deafening

“But what did she want? Mostly she wanted to be loved and left alone. Not sequentially, but simultaneously. Love me. And leave me the fuck alone.”

Book:Bad Ideas: A Novel

Source: Bad Ideas: A Novel