“Listening to them, I imagine myself a gorgeous stubborn singer, traveling the world with hope and a guitar, turning as rough and piney as a Laurentian forest.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Just like in Jane Eyre, the moral of the story would be 'never forget that you're nothing but a sad sausage.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke today is like waiting to die. Or what I imagine it would be like.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“On the bus, I pull out my book. It's the best book I've ever read, even if I'm only halfway through. It's called Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, with two dots over the e. Jane Eyre lives in England in Queen Victoria's time. She's an orphan who's taken in by a horrid rich aunt who locks her in a haunted… — Fanny Britt Copy Share
“I had no idea that love is like a rock shattering your heart, as painful as it is life-giving, and that even as it… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Listening to them, I imagine myself a gorgeous stubborn singer, traveling the world with hope and a guitar, turning as rough and piney as… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“At the campfire, when I arrive and the boys chant, "Boum! Ba-da-boum! BA-DA-BOUM!" My strategy is to smile softly, as I wonder whether lamebrain… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Genevieve announces in her pinched voice for all to hear, "I stuck a fork in your butt, but you're so fat didn't feel a… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“One morning, we eat a dish straight out of Jane Eyre's barding school. It's disgusting.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“I'm starting to see that the less I think about it, the less it's true.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“Billie doesn't say much. I think it's because she feels so let down by others that she loses the ability to speak. But when… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
