42 quotes found
“I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost.”
“Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.”
“I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.”
“Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.”
“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”
“Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.”
“She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin the Line' by Tommy James, his expr...”
“People say that a time machine cant be invented, but theyve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the worlds first time machines.”
“They think Im not entirely grounded in reality, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back prog...”
“Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. Its a house like every other house but at some point a family live...”
“A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.”
“Were losing society to apathy, to digital technology, the people who care about nobody else but themselves. They share every little detail of their stupid lives online as if the world even gives a ...”
“Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out an...”
“In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brothers old blue Camaro c...”
“Oh, Im Chrissy Mackenzie, Im from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism, the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. You got any advice?Search me, Mandy muttered, spoonin...”
“Maybe Ill be watching super-8 home videos, Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. I love my super-8 camera, its an Eastman Kodak one Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Koda...”
“Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a s...”
“Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity an...”
“We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not we might have to eat the dog poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big exciteme...”
“I guess if theres one thing I can say about the 21st century, its that the 21st century is all flash and no substance everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on comput...”
“Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind ...”
“photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself”
