"Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it." (p152) - Cherie Dimaline

(about writing short stories) It leaves so much room for the reader to come in and take an active role. A great collection of short stories is like walking through a brilliant exhibit. It changes you, but you have to be open to the change.

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. (p173)

I learned very young that language and story are carriers of a much deeper reality, and that we have to fight for them the same way we fight to preserve culture and art.