Irma Voth Quotes

#1. 'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

Miriam Toews

#2. Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll come back with paint instead, or beer, or some new idea for a circus or something. They're social anarchists.

Miriam Toews

#3. Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures.

Cindy Margolis

#4. You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead.

Lish McBride

#5. For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.

Miriam Toews

#6. Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

Chris Rock

#7. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

Miriam Toews

#8. What is the popular image of rock star? A rail-thin, overly-paid, narcissistic, average-talented individual who self-implodes in front of everybody, eternally having a party and who looks eternally youthful?

Ian Astbury

#9. When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

Ann Jillian