Quotes by Steven Galloway

About Steven Galloway:

Steven Galloway is a Canadian novelist. Galloway was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia. He attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia. Galloway is an Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the UBC Creative Writing Program. He lives with his two young daughters in New Westminster.
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Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never k...

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You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

Steven Galloway

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

Steven Galloway

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

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It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

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She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. Sh...

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Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

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It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.

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A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

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Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible".

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By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly ...

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Author Bio

  • NameSteven Galloway
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornJuly 13, 1975
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionNovelist