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This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
— Miriam Toews
I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds.
— Miriam Toews
We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.
— Miriam Toews
Books are what save us. Books are what don't save us.
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Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.
— Miriam Toews
But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.
— Miriam Toews
Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.
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And what have you been up to? she asked.Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser. — Miriam Toews
I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.
— Miriam Toews
... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
— Miriam Toews
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
— Miriam Toews
You put the fist in pacifist?
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There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.
— Miriam Toews
Remember what mom used to say? "Shred the guilt.
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And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away
— Miriam Toews
Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful?
— Miriam Toews
He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions.
— Miriam Toews
You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.
— Miriam Toews
'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.
— Miriam Toews
And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
— Miriam Toews
All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.
— Miriam Toews
At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.
— Miriam Toews
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
— Miriam Toews
Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound?
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She lived in her head and that's why it glowed.
— Miriam Toews
If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.
— Miriam Toews
I want her face to feel at home on an ancient coin, he said. I want her eyes to harm me.
— Miriam Toews
They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault?
— Miriam Toews
You still have to eat.
— Miriam Toews
My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.
— Miriam Toews
Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.Because I would start to love them, he said. — Miriam Toews
Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book
— Miriam Toews
Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.
— Miriam Toews
Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?
— Miriam Toews
That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.
— Miriam Toews
She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself
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