We defended for 16 minutes as well as we can defend. We didn`t do a whole lot of trapping. It was just solid, half-court, man-to-man defense. The kids did a great job.
- Todd MartinDante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person`s spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement Day, they were the only sinners who didn`t get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.
- Jodi Picoult(Among the native people who became important to Boyden was Francis Pegahmagabow, a sniper credited with killing 378 Germans during the Great War, who is fictionalised as the sharpshooter Peggy in the novel. Pegahmagabow was the chief of the Parry Island reserve near where Boyden`s mother now lives, and Boyden grew up with his grandchildren.) Francis looked at being a sniper as a job, neither with happiness nor sadness, ... To him it was like trapping and he was very good at it. But Canadians have completely forgotten him.
- Arthur Gray