"She was becoming sad. There is no joy……" — Miriam Toews
"She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself"
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23 Quotes by Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews has 23 quotes on this site.
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There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
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I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a…
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It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to…
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But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.
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It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
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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…
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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you…
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I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.
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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who…
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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or…
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Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?
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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I…
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of…
— Scott Adams
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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