Dundurn Press

“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

“As children we heard different narratives: some true, others false. In our innocence we accepted them, however narrow or imposed. Later, as we learned to discern fact from fiction, questions arose: Are we merely clinging to symbols of the past? What versions of the story are real or imagined? Poking holes into the dark fabric of the unknown, we weigh each probability. We’re not always prepared for what we discover when the facts don’t align in our ongoing quest for the truth.”
― Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann, The Nail That Sticks Out: Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community

“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

“Hemingway’s been a reporter long enough to know that when you meet resistance from the people in authority it’s better not to confront them. Withdraw, regroup, and make another plan of attack.”
― Marianne K. Miller, We Were the Bullfighters