Megansumiko

“She says isn’t it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion toward the people who invented the concept of “telling time.” How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
― Michel de Montaigne