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February 9, 2014

Quote – Lost Without Our Names and Stories

“We are lost without our names, without the stories that we scratched into the surface of our hearts” -S.M. Beiko – The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013)

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February 5, 2014

Quote – Hiding Our Heads As We Pollute The Earth

“I know that we are going to destroy the world that holds us. We are savages, treating the Earth like a toilet, fouling our own nest. We all seem to agree on that now… We knew what we were wreaking and it scared us, most of all because we couldn’t see any way of stopping it. So we stick our...

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January 31, 2014

Quote – Stones Need Nothing

“The summer stones were rough and warm to the touch. They were not alive, but if they were dead, it was a simple kind of dead: They were only themselves. They needed nothing.” -Erin Bow – Sorrow’s Knot (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)

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January 28, 2014

Quote – Being Self, Without Labels

“She did not want to be ‘chosen’. That word itself sickening, a horrible world. All she wanted was to be herself, that’s all; she did not care about male, or female, or fish, or human, or black, or white, or anything with labels.” -Jennifer Footman – The Mermaid (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic)

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January 22, 2014

Quote – Live Deep

“You can live on the surface and be safe, or dive deep and begin to discover the truth. But remember, there are always more truths than one.” -Welwyn Winton Katz, Come Like Shadows

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January 17, 2014

Quote – Love is a Little Different for Each of us

“Well, it doesn’t matter, I suppose. Love is a little different for each of us, isn’t it? And a little different each time, too. Like me and you, like this, this unique togetherness.” -Sean Moreland – The Rosy Boa” in Pavor Nocturnus: Dark Fiction Anthology (January, 2014 online at http://pavnoc.com/?p=419 )

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January 11, 2014

Quote – Stand up for People, Not Money

“I don’t have the answer. I don’t think anyone has the answer. But I think we’re only going to find the answer when we stop making it all worse. We need politicians who stand for people, not money.” -Cory Doctorow – Homeland (Tor, 2013)

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January 9, 2014

Quote – Rebuilding the Lost

“I have devoted my life to recovering the irrecoverable and rebuilding what was lost, searching out its ghosts and giving them flesh within monographs and articles.” -Helen Marshall Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine, 2012)

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December 3, 2013

Quote – Legends begin in small towns

“Legends begin in small northern towns on the edge of places other people only drive through on their way to somewhere else, in station wagons and vans full of summer gear: Muskoka chairs in bright summer colours, coolers full of beer, canvas bags bursting with swimsuits and shorts and t-shirts, and dogs who slumber on blankets in the back seat...

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November 19, 2013

Quote – Surface Dwelling and Energy into Transforming World into Unnatural Objects

“Perhaps the vulnerability of surface dwelling explains their constant, frenetic activity and their tendency to expend tremendous amounts of energy transforming the matter of their world into perversely unnatural objects.” -Gary Eikenberry – Anthropology 101 (in Tesseracts)

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