Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.