All Miriam Toews Quotes
- There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. Dark
- I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that… Coming Home
- It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when… Emptiness
- But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. Buzz
- It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them. Drown
- We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for… All
- I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. Another Thing
- I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window. Inspirational
- Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record.… Air
- Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better… Amounts
- Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life? Beautiful
- The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… Bed
- I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be… Actually Dead
- It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it… Bleeding
- 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 if… Avalanche
- After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and… All
- If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. Along
- ...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but… All
- Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams. Dream
- Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. Asking
- She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself Becoming
- Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. Faith
- A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad… Ago