Quotes by Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

…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 do you have anymore?

Plant

Sun

Sun Rise

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 said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

Dad

Disappointment

Uncles

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 holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

Fall

Fun

Together

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Grief

Mushrooms

Weed

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

Gentleman

Girl

Home

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 word.

Art

Children

Honesty

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that’s both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

Erotic

Masters

Prose

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. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.

Air

Boys

Lakes

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

Forgiving God

Laughter

Strong

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 make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

Home

Sadness

Thinking

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Air

Art

Ashes

Asking

Beautiful

Becoming

Black And White

Blood

Body

Boys

Children

Cousin

Dad

Dark

Depression

Disappointment

Disease

Dream

Emptiness

Enemy

Erotic

Expectations

Fall

Firsts

Focus

Forgiving God

Fun

Gentleman

Girl

Grief

Grieving

Heart

Helping

Home

Honesty

Ifs

Joy

Just A Dream

Lakes

Laughter

Life

Lost

Lying

Masters

Mean

Mirrors

Mother

Mushrooms

Oneself

Pain

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Quotes by Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

…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 do you have anymore?

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 said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

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 holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

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 word.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that’s both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

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. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.

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

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 make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

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