Hayden Vanier

“Je n'ai jamais mis les pieds à Sorel, ni le reste du corps d'ailleurs, et dès mon arrivée, je comprends pourquoi : rien d'attrayant dans cette ville plutôt laide dont la seule originalité est d'être une anagramme du mot «rôles».”
― Patrick Senécal, Grande liquidation

“I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.”
― Bernard Beckett, Genesis

“I’ve always said that my ideal reader would be someone who after finishing one of my novels would throw it out the window, presumably from an upper floor of an apartment building in New York, and by the time it had landed would be taking the elevator down to retrieve it.”
― Harry Mathews

“Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me