Dundurn Press

“Waiting for Elyse to reach a developmental milestone is like seven years of waiting for the sun to emerge. When the moment comes, the effect is a ray of sunshine in an otherwise grey world. The golden hour is pure celebration, light.”
― Adelle Purdham, I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself

“In the years since I’d moved away, gentrification had uprooted mainstays and entire communities along Dundas Street but not east of the bridge. East of the bridge there were no banks. No grocery stores. No windowed shops for one to stop and stare at pretty things. If not for the Don River, streetcars would simply detour north onto River Street and avoid the area altogether.”
― Denise Da Costa, And the Walls Came Down

“With the barriers between home and work life increasingly fragile, and with the new electronic technology putting increasingly great stress on workers’ physical and mental health, protection of workers’ private time is of increasing importance.”
― Jon Peirce, Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace

“Sometimes, I tell them stories about their mom. They used to come up a lot, because it was important that we remember. Stories still come up, but the sadness around the stories has mostly gone. There’s a lightness to these stories now, a lack of urgency.”
― Gonzalo Riedel, Never Better: Two Kids, Their Dad, and His Wife's Ghost