"Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze……" — Miriam Toews
"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 you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing."
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Miriam Toews
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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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More Avalanche Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has…
— Dan Jenkins
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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
— John Burroughs
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed…
— Victor Hugo
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When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have…
— Rafael Nadal
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He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could…
— Colleen Houck
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Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of…
— Sam Houston
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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data -…
— Dee Hock
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of…
— Tre Cool
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
— Bob Goff
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Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
— Franz Wright
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche
— Nicki Minaj
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