Jennifer

“Many Canadians are unaware of what happened in a country that proudly boasts of being one of the best places in the world to live…It is the greatest place to live for anyone, except for the original inhabitants of this land, the Aboriginal people.”
― Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Soon after arrival at residential school, we were assigned a number that would become our identity. I became Number 1 on the girls' side. Ninety years after she left St. Joseph's Mission, my grandmother still remembered she was Number 27. My mom remembers her number was 71. Thankfully, our numbers were not tattooed on our skin.”
― Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One

“I somehow missed the scripture that reads 'Forgive your sexual abuser and let him eat at family dinners' when I was in Sunday school.”
― helen knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience