“We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
“This memory, this pretty little stone, I examine it with my eyes closed tight. Turn it over in my fingers.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
“In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer move, [...].”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
“I can see that Elijah knows exactly what Thompson’s asking. Thompson is asking if Elijah likes killing. Elijah considers it for a moment. ‘It’s in my blood,’ he finally says.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
“I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes...”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
“You are a hookimaw. Happiness is not yours to have.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden
Born place: in Canada
Born date October 31, 1966
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“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.”
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“Do not judge a woman on her knees: you never know how tall she is when she stands.”
― Mie Hansson, quote from Where Pain Thrives
“I wouldn’t change a thing
Because all those things led me to
this place
And to you”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Take a Bow
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”
― Sarah Pinborough, quote from Behind Her Eyes
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