Bernie believed in God. He believed that God wanted people to enjoy life to the fullest, not drench themselves in aversion and prejudice.
You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can’t see through you like cellophane.
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.
What’s supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.
The child psychologist’s clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
Don’t you think it’s better to continue reading than to just close the book?
I love the smell of old books,” Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?
Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.
Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!
Your imaginary friend isn’t the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don’t seem to have any real friends.
People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.
A picture’s worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.
Newspapers take peoples’ tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.
Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.
photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…
Alecto isn’t a person! He’s just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.
I don’t like psychiatrists,” Alecto told her. “Not because they don’t think I’m real, but because they have no idea what they’re doing.
Directing a funeral isn’t about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, there’s going to be something entirely different… death without remediation.
Typical Pollution, they’re always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don’t regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.
Why do they lie?” she asked herself aloud. “They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.
I’ll remember you… I remember everyone I’ve lost.
I’ve been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you’ll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.
You don’t understand,” Alecto replied vacantly. “It isn’t that I want to die… I just don’t want to exist.
There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it… this place, she decided, was called Smog City.
I can’t look people in the eye and tell them that they’re going to die anymore.
I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.
He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
There are some things in the past that… that just aren’t meant to be viewed.
Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.
I never said I was sad, I’m just pessimistic,” said Alecto. “Expect the worst, that way you’ll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
If I hear the phrase “selfie” one more time, I’ll have to enroll myself in anger management classes.
On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.
You’re such a great liar when you lie to yourself.
There’s a good reason for everything, ain’t there?
Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning…
Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?
The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we’re asleep.
To exist as an interpreter of the law, you first have to follow that law yourself. Law is the glue that holds society together. It’s flawed, but absolute, and corruption only hinders its progress.
And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?
One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.
Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
I don’t want any other friends! They’d never be as good a friend as you are.
I’ll never buy a cell phone, I’d rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century’s ball and chain.