Becoming Quote by Miriam Toews

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.

— Miriam Toews

“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

“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

“The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness.”

— Miriam Toews

“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

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

“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

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

“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

The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is…

— Miriam Toews

“..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

“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