Laura Block

“No matter how baby-proof you make your home, they will miraculously find a piece of barbed wire or a chainsaw from somewhere and play with”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“My first, a son, was a natural birth. The pain was a shock. I couldn’t understand how I could be in that much pain but still be alive. I screamed at the midwife, Cynthia, ‘GET ME AN EPIDURAL OR A GUN.’ Happily, they were out of guns and Ahmed, a good-humoured anaesthetist, arrived, injected some manners into me and I apologised to Cynthia.”
― Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

“Whenever the old people got quieter in their volume and more precise in their words, Joan had learned to shut the hell up. So she did.”
― Cherie Dimaline, Empire of Wild

“We as humans forgot our specific place and spread into every place instead. As if we were removed from consequence. As if we were untouchable. We couldn’t even imagine the Earth retaliating. And then it did.”
― Cherie Dimaline, Hunting by Stars