Barbara McEwen

“Elsewhere, people like Aunt Emily clack away at their typewriters, spreading words like buckshot, aiming at the shadow in the sky.”
― Joy Kogawa, Obasan

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.”
― James Hannaham, Delicious Foods

“Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan”
― Margaret Laurence, The Diviners