“There’s more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch.”

Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me).

Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.

I feel great. I’m right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I’ve had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

I feel like I’m a veteran at this now.

There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.

After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I’m one of the top Canadian ladies.

The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I’ve had big family support from friends and club support.

Even if I wear jeans, I still wear a blazer and jewelry. I think there is something nice about coming to work and dressing nicely.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.

And when they don’t get what they want, say, “Okay, sweetheart, yours is coming. Let’s help you get it.” Be there 100% for them.

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn’t have the skills to beat me.

To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that’s just coming out of college and you’re out working these guys.

I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.