Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Alissa York

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian writer Alissa York.
Last updated on December 14, 2024.
Alissa York

Alissa York is a Canadian writer and the 1999 winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Toronto with her writer/filmmaker/publisher husband Clive Holden.

There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him — © Alissa York
John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him
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