Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows (2014)

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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Miriam Toews

We Poor Cousins don't care at all though, except for when we're on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. 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.

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It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

Miriam Toews

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

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