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Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews

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. more

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“Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.”

IfsKnowsFeelsTodayPastFilmWaterBehindsSeeingFeetWalkingWindowPressureEdgesStoresIceUsualPeersFloatsBladesTenseFreezeSkatesCementEagernessPresent Tense
Book:Bluebeard's Egg
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“I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake”

WorldWantFeelsHeartMeanI CanSoulWholeBodyAbleLove YouBedAnd LoveWhole WorldAwakeTunesFrightenedLove You So MuchI Love You So Much
Author:Dylan Thomas
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