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Miriam Toews  Quotes
The dump was kind of like a department store for Ray, but even more like a holy cementery where he could organize abandoned dreams and wrecked things into families, in a way, that stayed together.

—Miriam Toews

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DreamsDumpGarbage
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Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

—Miriam Toews

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SadnessSurvival
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We loved each other. We fought for each other. When worlds collapsed we were buried in the rubble together and when we were dug out of the rubble and rescued we all celebrated together.

—Miriam Toews

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

—Miriam Toews

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DrugsGriefLove
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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.

—Miriam Toews

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I heard Tash say: Nomi, you’re sad man. Get a grip. Walk away. What have I taught you? And I thought: You taught me that some people can leave and some can’t and those who...

—Miriam Toews

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ResentmentSad
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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...

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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 being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c’mon now honey.

—Miriam Toews

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Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her...

—Miriam Toews

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Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson’s notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum...

—Miriam Toews

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DreamingDreamsSleep
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I was beginning to understand something I couldn’t articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don’t...

—Miriam Toews

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When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face...

—Miriam Toews

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She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others’ expectations of yourself

—Miriam Toews

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ExpectationsJoySadness
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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.

—Miriam Toews

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Feminism
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Imagine a psychiatrist sitting down with a broken human being saying, I am here for you, I am committed to your care, I want to make you feel better, I want to return your joy...

—Miriam Toews

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LovePsychiatryPsychology
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We drove down Corydon avenue towards my mother’s apartment. How are you doing, she asked me? Fine, fine, I said. I wanted to tell her that I felt I was dying from rage and that...

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

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DepressionQuestions
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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

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ChristmasHumor
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He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if...

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

—Miriam Toews

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

—Miriam Toews

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Depression
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