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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)

— Cherie Dimaline The Marrow Thieves (2017)

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"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)

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)

"...When we heal our land, we are healed also." (p193)

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Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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