Richard Wagamese

“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those…

— Richard Wagamese

“The towns and the players are all different. But the game is always the same, its speed and power. Hockey’s grace and…

— Richard Wagamese

“I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated…

— Richard Wagamese

“But there were always things swimming around in me that I could neither hold on to long enough to comprehend or learn…

— Richard Wagamese

“We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never…

— Richard Wagamese

“When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your…

— Richard Wagamese

“Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past…

— Richard Wagamese

“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we…

— Richard Wagamese

“I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.”

— Richard Wagamese

“We become eternal by being held in memory's loving arms.”

— Richard Wagamese

“For my wife Deborah, for allowing me to bask in her light and become more.”

— Richard Wagamese

“That's what's important really, Keeper says. Learning how to be what the Creator created you to be. Face your truth.”

— Richard Wagamese

“Time doesn’t exist. Pardon me? Time. It doesn’t exist. Did you know that? No. Sometimes it seems like it’s all that’s real.…

— Richard Wagamese

“We need mystery,” she said. “Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations…

— Richard Wagamese

“There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment…

— Richard Wagamese

“I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.”

— Richard Wagamese

“Hockey is like the universe, Saul,” he said one day. “When you stand in the dark and look up at it, you…

— Richard Wagamese

“I'm twenty-three years old, I'm working graveyard in the fucking mine and I been there since I was sixteen. I'll be thee…

— Richard Wagamese

“Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then…

— Richard Wagamese

“We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility,…

— Richard Wagamese

“See, when we get sent out into the world we come here carryin' two sets of gifts. The gifts of the father…

— Richard Wagamese

“The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway”

— Richard Wagamese

“I am constantly surrounded by noise: TV, texts, the internet, music, meaningless small talk, my thinking. All of it blocks my consciousness,…

— Richard Wagamese

“Sometimes people just need to talk. They need to be heard. they need the validation of my time, my silence, my unspoken…

— Richard Wagamese

“We approach our lives on different trajectories, each of us spinning in our own separate, shining orbits. What gives this life its…

— Richard Wagamese