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“I dont like psychiatrists, Alecto told her. Not because they dont think Im real, but because they have no idea what theyre doing.”
“There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. Shed wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have...”
“All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five stages. Others say that grief should only last two years at the lost, otherwise it's "abnormal"....”
“Newspapers take peoples tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.”
“I dont want anything else bad to happen, she whispered, her voice choked with tears. Im so sick to death of bad things happening, of seeing bad things that happened in the past! And Im guilty of so...”
“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...”
“How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these ki...”
“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...”
“Directing a funeral isnt about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.”
“In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, theres going to be something entirely different death without remediation.”
“Typical Pollution, theyre always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.”
“Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guide...”
“Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming? Mandy questioned sadly. All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers Cape Breton was one of the onl...”
“Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way youll ever...”
“Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be d...”
“There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just ...”
“People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the wo...”
“Oftentimes she wondered what had happened to super 8. Sure, it made perfect sense that nobody wanted the hassle of spending money on a three-minute cartridge of film and threading it through a proj...”
