“Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are ...”

“Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. Callo, Im so sorry that your life ended up this way, she sighs as she gets out of ...”

“Cell phones are certainly not necessary, and "but I'm from the digital age, this is what everyone in my generation is doing!" isn't a very good excuse for being hooked on a glowing screen 24/7. In ...”

“He didnt remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasnt as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried and when he found himself alive again a few hours later ...”

“People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not...”

“Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.”

“He thought of what his mother always said whenever he cut himself, Dimka, scars are times alphabet. If so, his body was covered in poetry, his soul contained an entire encyclopedia of pain and loss...”

“Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping...”

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”