Howard Norman

“There’s a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.”

— Howard Norman

“Everything I loved most happened most every day.”

— Howard Norman

“The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart”

— Howard Norman

“My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening”

— Howard Norman

“Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give”

— Howard Norman

“I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.”

— Howard Norman

“When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the…

— Howard Norman

“These broadcasts were of varied content. But all of them took the United States and Canada to task for their anti-Semitism, for…

— Howard Norman

“Early on July 2, 1911, my father left with Lambert Charibon for Anticosti Island. Shortly after supper on the same day, my…

— Howard Norman

“What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?”

— Howard Norman

“I bet he's hightailed it into Canada. Somewhere into Canada." "Let me put it this way. Basically, there's Canada and there's the…

— Howard Norman

“I went into the kitchen. My mother joined us there, Margaret threw back three shots in a row. "Oh yes, to be…

— Howard Norman

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if…

— Howard Norman

“In The Highland Book of Platitudes , Marlais, there's an entry that reads, "Not all ghosts earn our memory in equal measure."…

— Howard Norman