154 Quotes by Miriam Toews

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat. It’s the same for thinking, writing, and life.

The pain of letting go of grief is just as painful or even more painful than the grief itself.

Books are what save us. Books are what don’t save us.

My dad had said don’t look, but I’d already seen him. Pickled eggs are the Devil’s snack.

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

She says isn’t it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named – when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery?

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.

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

I don’t know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear.