Cathy Stanfield

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz, The Carolinian

“The town office building has a giant filing cabinet full of death certificates that say choked to death on his own anger or suffocated from unexpressed feelings of unhappiness.”
― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

“There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants.”
― Jarod Kintz, How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

“Things shouldn’t hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you’re highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and bang, 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.”
― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness