Dundurn Press

“Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.”
― Suzanne F. Kingsmill, Crazy Dead

“but here I am, in this study that looks across a road well travelled in the rushing mornings to work, and hardly travelled with such anxiety and intent during the hours that come before the rush to work, walked on, and peed on, by the homeless, and the prostitutes and the pimps, and the men and women going home to apartments in the sky, surrounding and overlooking Moss Park park, as I like to call it. Moss Park park is where life stretches out itself on its back, prostrate in filthy, hopeless, bouts of heroism and stardom, for these men who lie on the benches and the dying grass, are heroes to themselves and to one another,”
― Austin Clarke, 'Membering

“We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.”
― J.C. Villamere, Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe

“As part of the healing process, change your perception of yourself from “victim” to that of “advocate” and “survivor.”
― Don Easton, Angel in the Full Moon