154 Quotes by Miriam Toews

It’s raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

No, Ernie, says Agata, there’s no plot, we’re only women talking.

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.

Remember what mom used to say? “Shred the guilt.

When my mother went to university to become a therapist she learned that suffering, even though it may have happened a long time ago, is something that is passed from one generation to the next to the next, like flexibility or grace or dyslexia.

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

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

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

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.