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  1. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.
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  2. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    Tash had warned me about running. It's for idiots and children."
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  3. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.
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  4. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    People here just can't wait to die, it seems. It's the main event. The only reason we're not all snuffed at birth is because that would reduce our suffering by a lifetime.
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  5. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    She lived in her head and that's why it glowed.
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  6. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    I think she was smiling the same kind of real smile that Tash had smiled just before she left. It's a scary smile. It's a smile that means there is nothing left to lose. That you are free,
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  7. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it.
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  8. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    Everytime 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. - Nomi
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  9. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    I sat on my Dad's bed and flipped through the page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black and white photo which if it where used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful
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  10. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    Wealthier Mennonites even though they're not technically supposed to be wealthy do their drinking in North Dakota or Hawaii. They are sort of like rock bands on tour in that the rules of this town don't apply to them when they're on the road. An embarrassing situation for wealthy Mennonites is to meet other wealthy Mennonites at the swim-up bar at the Honolulu Holiday Inn.
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  11. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

    I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted to play hockey with the boys on Friday nights and Ray became just a little too eager. Okay he shouted. All right We have to get you a stick We have to get tape I'll be waiting in the car
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  12. Miriam Toews _ A Complicated Kindness

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