Trickster Drift Quotes

“We hear the ocean in our dreams,’ ” Neeka said, “ ‘our cages of blood and bone sing her songs. Exiled on shore, our tongues caress the lost words we no longer understand, her language of salt and surging.’ ”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

“You okay?" Jared said.

"You've never called me Aunt before. Bring it in. Come on, gimme hugs."

"Can we not make a big deal?"

"No. Deals will be big.”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

“You are far from simple. You are a little universe. You are the wet and pulsing distillation of stars, a house of light made bipedal and carbon-based, temporary and infinite. You are also the void.

Cartographers used to write on maps, “Here be dragons,” when they reached places beyond their known world. When humans touch the void, they say, “Here is magic.”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

“You found the words for what we feel. We curse your enemies, Mavis Moody.” “Oh. Well, then, um…” “May they rot in hell.”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

“Maybe I shud’ve let Mave have u, she wrote. A good time to practise detachment, Jared thought. Separate the emotions from the conversation. Treat it like information, because that’s all this was. Information.”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

“Film crew shooting Supernatural near you tonight, Crashpad texted. Attaching map & bus routes. Take lots of pix.”
― Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift