Lesley Choyce > Quotes

“Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.”
― Lesley Choyce, End of the World As We Know It

“Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.”
― Lesley Choyce, Book of Michael

“She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.”
― Lesley Choyce, Book of Michael

“My head was spinning but I
made myself go to sleep
by imagining that I was not
a real person at all
but
the song
in the throat
of a sparrow.”
― Lesley Choyce, Jeremy Stone

“As Tara walked down the corner past the vacant lot that once was the unofficial refuge for kids on the street in Halifax, she realized just how far they had both travelled from that dark end of the street, just how far they had travelled from the front steps of Hell’s Hotel.”
― Lesley Choyce, Hell's Hotel