Maple maypole Quotes

“That is the normal succession of things in this part of the world; you can see the various stages all over Scratch Flat. There is, for example, a small red maple swamp above my house on the northwest side of the drumlin. The swamp was probably a pond sixty years ago, but now in summer, unless you know your trees, you cannot distinguish it from the surrounding woodlands. It is only in spring, when the groundwater levels are high, that the remnant of the ice sheet makes itself apparent. Then the waters rise around the trunks of the red maple trees and, after reaching a critical level, run down across the small meadow to the north of my house.”

“Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.”

“I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.”

“Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.”

“Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group.”

“It's just... You sound like lorde. But like, with maple syrup.”

“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground”

“I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.”

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...”