Canadian Boyfriend Quotes

“when you don’t know what to say, you usually can’t go wrong with the truth, even if it makes you or other people uncomfortable.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“once you open your eyes to the possibility, life is full of conflicting truths. I wonder, though, if time sands down the square edges that seem so painfully sharp now.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“Aurora?”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“I’m already down three pounds, and I think I might have a shot at Clara this winter. Remember last year when Emma got Clara and I was a mouse? She was the star, and I was a rodent? This year’s motto is: Mouse No More!”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“It made me tear up. I went back to the mudroom and got hold of myself. I had been judging my progress by how often I cried, congratulating myself on the fact that I did so with decreasing frequency. What I had failed to account for was the possibility that tears could be happy.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“Sometimes, when I was teetering at the edge of the abyss, I did this thing where I concentrated on a bad feeling in order to distract myself from another, worse feeling. Missing my mom was an entirely different thing from missing Sarah. This trick was my own little invention.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“thought of the face my mother had made the first time she’d visited, the lemon-drop face,”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“As much as I didn’t like the idea of being bad at something, I liked even less the idea of myself as frozen in time, unable or unwilling to evolve.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend

“I was coming to understand that my peacekeeping had been about my fear of losing people—maybe I wasn’t so much a peacekeeper as a people-keeper.”
― Jenny Holiday, Canadian Boyfriend