You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.” — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?” — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Course they wouldn't have all the details, like whether or not they played in squares of sunlight on their walls, if they… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“I heard Tash say: Nomi, you’re sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“..I followed her out the door and watched her walk down the road towards home, hers, and the bright yard light, and her own… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“someday you’ll be gone, you’ll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There’s no other place to be. This world is good… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
