Joseph Boyden citations

“On attend quelque chose, et un matin on se réveille et on comprend. C'est simplement la fin qu'on attend. Selon Lisette, c'est ce que les gens à la télé appelle une dépression.”

“C'est une longue histoire, je crois. (…) Je désirais la lui raconter sans détours, mais je ne la voyais pas ainsi. Les histoires sont toujours pleines de détours.”

“They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.”

“When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.”