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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.

— Cherie Dimaline with Editors Canada (2017)

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More quotes by Cherie Dimaline

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

The Marrow Thieves (2017)

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)

The Marrow Thieves (2017)

We need better educated and positioned allies, and literature is one way to make this happen.

with Publishing Perspectives (2017)

A writer creates, an editor crafts. And in the world of great literature, one cannot exist without the other.

with Editors Canada (2017)

I write what I understand and what fascinates and comforts me from within a place of knowing.

with Publishing Perspectives (2017)

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