Dundurn Press

“Hopefully, this is a durable remission.”

Durable. This isn’t the first time he’s used the word. Boy, do I miss the days of them saying cured. Those were the good, unrealistic times. Am I to be durable now? Cancer will be splashed across me like juice onto tile, only to be wiped away, then again splashed and again wiped away.”
― Jason Jobin, The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir

“Cat wonders why she is so judgmental, hearing this. She married into money too, though she and Donovan had been together for months before she became aware of the glittering cloud of family wealth that lay behind his easy confidence.”
― Nathan Whitlock, Lump

“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

“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