19 Quotes

“Check your pockets, my chimney-child.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

“Religion" is a term like "sports" ... To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

“Hello COVID-19, goodbye world.”
― Steven Magee

“While strategies of colonialism were about removing and seperating people from that which is most important to them, healing and recovery must be about restoring what has been taken, reconnecting people to the stories and context of one's life and family. (p. 19)”
― Catherine Richardson, Belonging Metis

“The more one realizes they are on a journey to find out who they are (where they come from, who their family is) when this information has been denied, the more it can be understood as a journey back to culture and identity... Stories can be a part of the glue that binds the personal with the social, allowing us to feel part of something greater. (p. 19)”
― Catherine Richardson, Belonging Metis

“Venin și farmec

Venin și farmec port în suflet,
Cu al tău zâmbet trist mă pierzi,
Căci fărmecat sunt de zâmbirea-ți
Și-nveninat de ochii verzi.
Și nu-nțelegi că-n al meu suflet
Dureri de moarte tu ai pus ­
Cât de frumoasă ești pot spune,
Cât te iubesc nu e de spus!”
― Mihai Eminescu