Quotes by : Miriam Toews

I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a....

Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked....

He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from....

She told me that the brain is built to forget things as we continue to live, that memories are meant....

Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd....

One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as....

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

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of....

I went back into my bedroom and knelt at my bed the way I did when I was a kid. I folded my hands and....

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable....