April 26, 2018
This Week’s Reading
- Saturday is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day
- “Or maybe they still liked Judy Blume but wouldn’t admit it to each other, and now sulky vampires and dystopian divas were passé, so I had no idea what they were into.”
- “If I was an observer, I would envy me this moment. But as a participant, I am grateful for this unexpected outcome of Earth Day: My family, cocooned in purposeful darkness, sharing our stories.”
- “Almost 30 years after the École Polytechnique massacre, we must continue to find any reason for violent misogyny besides violent misogyny.”
- “Courage is not about the absence of fear or anger or extreme emotion. The definition of courage is, when experiencing those emotions, refusing to let them govern your behaviour.”
- “Terrorism is a trap of meaning. The terrorists win because they convince others that their insanity has larger meaning and that that larger meaning can be confronted by political or military means. Such a response empowers their psychopathology.”
- “Why is it that men are so freely awarded the benefit of the doubt while women are constantly challenged to prove themselves in politics?”
- “I’ve been riding the subway and reading Penelope Fitzgerald and crying lately.”
- “Maybe what happens in my ribcage isn’t my soul at all but there’s no real proof that it isn’t.”
- “Ten thousand years ago when summers were long and the sun shone every day…”
- “So….here’s to failure. And more failure.”
- “There were just two things a young Kate Inglis wanted to be when she grew up: a professional roller skater and an author.”
