Quotes from Will Ferguson

Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.

I've never subscribed to the notion that poverty is quaint or that isolation is somehow ennobling. And anyway, this is Rwanda. There is very little innocence left to lose.

Oh yes, we found out what happened to the Acadians. Apparently they went on a holiday, to Louisiana or someplace, and when they come back the Loyalists had moved in and taken all their land. So the Acadians killed them. Just kidding. The Acadians moved north into upper New Brunswick, where they now make up a third of the population. New Brunswick is, in essence, Canada in miniature.

WARNING! Life leads to old age, illness and death.

The secret to having a good time in Ottawa? Move.

Allo stesso tempo in giapponese ci sono due parole, wabi e sabi, che messe insieme significano bellezza effimera e fluttuante; estetica della decadenza, dei dettagli asimmetrici e dei colori naturali; gusto per il non finito, il transeunte, l'imperfetto. Per spiegare cosa significano queste quattro sillabe giapponesi nelle nostre lingue bisogna scrivere dei mini trattati.

Memory is the hotel curtain that never completely closes. Memory always lets in just enough light to fill the room and ruin your sleep.

Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.

We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we barely notice it, and one that we claim by virtue of our citizenship. But it is also worth remembering that people -- in the words of Bulgarian-born Canadian philanthropist Ignat Kaneff -- 'crawl across minefields to get here.

other things." He filled her cup. "Jasmine," he said. "Tastes

When sakura fall from the branch, the shock waves can shatter entire cities.

Perché dovresti farlo? mi chiesero, giustamente perplessi. Non c'è motivo di fare l'autostop. Abbiamo costruito apposta l'alta velocità. Altri si preoccupavano per la mia incolumità. Ma, ribattevo io il Giappone è uno stato assolutamente sicuro, no? Oh, sì. Sicurissimo. Il più sicuro del mondo. E allora perché non dovrei fare l'autostop? Perché il Giappone è pericoloso. E via così.

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