Dundurn Press

“Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?”
― Deb Loughead

“You -have- to love your monster.”
― Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer's Handbook

“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