49 quotes found
Novelist · Canadian · 1991
Canadian novelist
“I am more than my scars.”
“Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.”
“Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.”
“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
“You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay. ”
“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.”
“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
“As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?”
“There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”
“There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe ...”
“She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. I dont want to die, she whispered, but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.”
“There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you a...”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
“My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate;...”
“This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we're fucking. We want to gra...”
“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..”
“She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.”
“What is it like to wear another persons skin?I dont have a good answer for that, I said. It hurts.Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?”
“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twent...”
“With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to m...”
“Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.”
