Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Brian Francis.
Last updated on November 14, 2024.
Brian Francis is a Canadian writer. His 2004 novel Fruit was selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by novelist and CBC Radio One personality Jen Sookfong Lee. It finished the competition as the runner-up, making the last vote against the eventual winner, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes.
The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.
We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.
The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.