| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adad215 | No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| 423127b | And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of it through this long and burning day but also through most of my yet young life and it is only now that I am doubly its victim that I begin to vaguely understand. For I had somehow thought that 'going away' was but a physical thing. And that it had only to do with movement and with labels like the silly 'Vancouver' that I .. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| d2aa18a | Measure twice; cut once. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| 33fcc5b | Sometimes it slanted against her window with a pinging sound, which meant it was close to hail, and then it was visible as tiny pellets for a moment on the pane before the pellets vanished and rolled quietly down the glass, each drop leaving its own delicate trickle. At other times it fell straight down, hardly touching the window at all, but still there beyond the glass, like a delicate, beaded curtain at the entrance to another room. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| 791d415 | we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island." | Alistair MacLeod |