Dundurn Press

“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

“For me, survival depended on disappearing in the same way my mother’s and father’s survival depended on their silence. Maybe not the best course of action for any of us, but could we have done things differently? I wish my parents were here so I could ask them, preferably in the language of their youth.”
― Sam Chaiton, We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell

“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

“With the barriers between home and work life increasingly fragile, and with the new electronic technology putting increasingly great stress on workers’ physical and mental health, protection of workers’ private time is of increasing importance.”
― Jon Peirce, Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace