“The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”

“Victoria Park looks like every other inner-city park in every other city in Canada; a large and handsome memorial to the war dead surrounded by a square block of hard-tracked grass and benches where people can sit and look at statues of politicians or at flower beds planted with petunias and marigolds, the cheap and the hardy, downtown survivors.”

“The park was littered with couples kissing behind trees and making out on park benches. And paper stars were everywhere; in trees, on the ground, above heads, inside mouths… It was like Valentine’s Day.On crack.”

“Making benches is no walk in the park. It takes one a lot of love to make a bench, and then it takes two to make love on that bench.”

“The greener grass is getting more water. Water the grass on your side of the fence and stop looking over at what's on the other side”

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”