Heather

“The problem with English is this: You usually can't open your mouth and it comes out just like that--first you have to think what you want to say. Then you have to find the words. Then you have to carefully arrange those words in your head. Then you have to say the words quietly to yourself, to make sure you got them okay. And finally, the last step, which is to say the words out loud and have them sound just right.
But then because you have to do all this, when you get to the final step, something strange has happened to you and you speak the way a drunk walks. And, because you are speaking like falling, it's as if you are an idiot, when the truth is that it's the language and the whole process that's messed up. And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking at your falling instead of paying attention to what you are saying.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“In place of dialectics, life had arrived.”
― Dostoyevsky

“Un livre est un monde, un monde fait, un monde avec un commencement et une fin. Chaque page d'un livre est une ville. Chaque ligne est une rue. Chaque mot est une demeure. Mes yeux parcourent la rue, ouvrant chaque porte, pénétrant dans chaque demeure.”
― Réjean Ducharme, L'avalée des avalés

“Amed avait même inventé un personnage à qui il faisait vivre des aventures impossibles. Celui-ci explorait des planètes lointaines, creusait des tunnels dans le désert, terrassait des créatures sous-marines. Il l’avait appelé Dôdi et l’avait affublé de deux bouches, une très petite et une très grande. Dôdi utilisait sa petite bouche pour communiquer avec les insectes et les microbes. Il utilisait sa grande bouche pour faire peur aux monstres qu’il combattait vaillamment.”
― Larry Tremblay, L'Orangeraie