The Museum Guard Quotes

“I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.”
― Howard Norman, The Museum Guard: A Novel

“Jews in the Old Country called the cemetery the 'Village of the Still-Living'. I'd like to be remembered by loved ones so strongly in that way, as if I'm still here, wouldn't you? I would.”
― Howard Norman, The Museum Guard

“Sometimes, you know, it seems I'm only allowed to live life between headaches.”
― Howard Norman, The Museum Guard

“I stand accused of bringing you more bad than good news. At times, and we are in such a time now, at times in human history, bad is disproportionate to good, and so I own up to the indictment. It's a fact of life, my Canadian brethren, that we cannot always control where the truth comes from, or how bad it turns out to be, or what it reveals about human nature.”
― Howard Norman, The Museum Guard