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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 think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid. — Jonathan Toews

I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds. — Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies. — 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. — Miriam Toews

Keep the bars open-we're coming home. — Jonathan Toews

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word. — Miriam Toews

Where does violence go, if not directly back into our blood and bones? — Miriam Toews

Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home. — Miriam Toews

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page! — Miriam Toews

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

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

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

Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality. — Miriam Toews

You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave. — Miriam Toews

The Harder you work, the easier it looks — Jonathan Toews

... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. — Miriam Toews

Remember what mom used to say? "Shred the guilt. — Miriam Toews

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

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ... — Miriam Toews

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. — Miriam Toews

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. — Miriam Toews

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance. — Miriam Toews

But there is a kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don't know what to say. — 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

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit. — Miriam Toews

Once you win the Cup once, you feel like it's yours. You don't want to give it up. — Jonathan Toews

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life? — Miriam Toews

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump. — Vic Toews

He's one of the most coachable players out there. — Jonathan Toews

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. — Miriam Toews

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong. — Jonathan Toews

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window. — Miriam Toews

When I put the poncho on to show Elf she said farewell to arms. — Miriam Toews

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams. — 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

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive? — Miriam Toews

You still have to eat. — Miriam Toews

She lived in her head and that's why it glowed. — Miriam Toews

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — 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

I love Chicago. Chicago is my home. — Jonathan 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

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

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? — Miriam Toews

My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another. — Miriam Toews

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. — Miriam Toews

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine. — Miriam Toews

The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness. — 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 — Miriam Toews

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them. — Miriam Toews

Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound? — 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

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — 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

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 never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago. — Jonathan Toews

You put the fist in pacifist? — Miriam Toews