{"author":"Rebecca McNutt","author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt","total_quotes":163,"quotes":[{"text":"Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn’t have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for “a cup of coffee”. If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn’t have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what’s going on. Tony has no idea, all he knows is that Peg isn’t the same Peg he married back in 2003. All he knows is that she’s changed a great deal, and not for the better, like a beautiful butterfly regressing back into a devouring, ugly caterpillar in the span of only a couple of months.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["affair","afterschool","anime","beautiful","butterfly","caterpillar","change","cheater","children","coffee","drawing","extracurricular-activities","girl-scouts","homewrecker","kids","kiss","marriage","neighbours","parents","purolator","street","ugly"],"id":62,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself….","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["camera","canon","capture","film","fujifilm","grief","joy","knowledge","kodachrome","kodak","loss","love","meaning","nikon","nostalgia","past","photo","photography","romance","super-8"],"id":951,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"We get along like a house on fire these days.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["argument","days","enemy","fight","fire","friendship","get-along","honesty","house"],"id":5572,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","canada-day","cape-breton","coal","country","hazardous","home","life","living","nova-scotia","patriot","pollution","steel","sydney-tar-ponds","toxic"],"id":6498,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth’s awful behavior,” Mandy suggested with optimism.“The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn’t murdered us both yet,” said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless.“Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?” Mandy questioned.“Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce,” Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. “I don’t know what else she likes. I’ve never asked her.”“Well, she has to like something… doesn’t everyone?”“Not her, Mandy Valems.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["celery","christmas","cigarette","comedy","gift","going-green","hoiday","humor","lettuce","miracle","mother-earth","murder","present","vegetables"],"id":11380,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["art","artificial","camera","celluloid","collapse","disturing","enigma","fake","family","film","flash","happy","instamatic","kodachrome","kodak","kodak-moment","lens","lie","memory","mystery","nikon","nostalgia","photo","photography","sad","scary","see-through","trapped","wall","zoom"],"id":23400,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Why do they lie?” she asked herself aloud. “They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["aloud","ask","bereavement","deal","death-dying","death-of-a-friend","death-of-a-loved-one","easy","grief","lie","loss","love","mourning","saying","time","worse"],"id":25309,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. “…It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?” she asked.“Oh, not really,” said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. “I’m going to be forgotten by someone who I can’t forget, though. That will be terrible… but maybe it’s better if she does forget me altogether.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["alone","forget","friendship","listless","lonliness","love","memory","sad","sadness"],"id":29352,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming?” Mandy questioned sadly. “All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the only places left where it still had that nostalgic small town atmosphere but now… I’ve only been away for a year, how could things have changed so quickly? I mean, how can the world accept it?”“C'est la vie,” said Alecto, looking extremely tired as he stared out the window at the late November maple keys fluttering down from vibrantly red trees lining the streets on either side of the windshield.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","cape-breton","car","cell-phone","change","digital","drive","environmental","life","modernity","nostalgia","nova-scotia","organic","street","technology","tower","windshield","yoga"],"id":29417,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":163,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}