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Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. Her works often focus on religion, family, and social change, and have won her a wide readership.

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“It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.”

Way Kind Moments Faces Powerful Blood Wall Brown Bothered Bleeding Manson Powerful Words Words Of Hope

Author:Miriam Toews

“Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.”

Ifs Way Life Kind Littles Dies Understanding Happened Stones Tiny Remove Highways Hinges Carnage Avalanches

Author:Miriam Toews

“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”

Ifs Way Lost

Author:Miriam Toews

“I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Humans Persons Made Different Home Language Sadness Rocks Fields Welcome Coming Home Twelve Reassuring Way Home Different Languages Welcome Home

Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

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Born: 1964
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 58

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