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"The response was abysmal: warnings, awareness narcan kits. Perhaps enough to spare the life of the casual user or the weekend partier. But inexcusably blind to the underpinnings of addiction, the realities of homelessness, and the decades of oppression blanketing the streets of Vancouver."

"... like an invisible skein of spider silk that this is a life familiar to them both, from back then, from before. It is their original map: the rising at dawn. the baking of bread, the milking of beasts the tilling of soil, the gathering of eggs. One eye on the weather at all times the other on the land or the youngers or the fire."

"Maps can be read for many things - geography both natural and man-made - and Tomás made sure that the Great Hunger was inscribed on his drafts and in his name books, that it was recorded, in symbols and writing, that its effects and scars would be seen, its evidence and testimony unmissable, for all time."

“The people of Gaza were once known for their honour. Now they force us to play victims. Now they force us to perform our suffering. This is what charity demands of us: humiliation. This is how the most honourable people are broken, one act at a time.”

“What about the life in which they were good to one another and therefore good to us, all of us good together. I would have liked to have seen that.”

“We’re like all the Victor Hugo novels put together. An anthology of great woes, small joys and hopes.”

“Why do books attract us the way people do? Why are we drawn to covers like we are to a look, a voice that seems familiar, heard before, a voice that diverts us from our path, makes us look up, attracts our attention, and could change the course of our life.”

“No one ever says that you can die from having been too fed up, too often.”

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“I have always been susceptible to my mother’s minor needs and exigencies. I began many a battle feeling indomitable and ended up prostrate and vanquished, my mother’s flag fluttering, its pole staked right through my heart. I knew of no one else who could use sighs as a lethal weapon.”

“I don’t agree or disagree. I learned that a long time ago. That my opinion doesn’t really matter. And the less I say, the more pleasant the memory of me today will be.”

And if some people, even more marginalized than the others, have found their place of reassembling in a circle of tents, if this has helped them become once again, a human body whole, I cannot deny them this.