“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
“We can never escape the past, and it shapes who we are.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven.”
Alice Munro Quotes :
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love until it entered her own life.”
“The stories are about the things that people can’t always say out loud.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
“A story is not like a road to follow… it’s more like a house.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels.”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love.”
“A story is not like a road to follow.”
“I want to tell stories about people.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are.”
“Love removes the world for you.”
“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”
“We change how we look at life, but life doesn’t change.”
“If we didn’t have mysteries, we’d have nothing to think about.”
“People are curious. A few people are. … They will keep looking and asking questions.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories.”
“You can’t understand everything at once, we understand one thing, then another, and in some way they all fit together.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are and all that. They never stop to think about what you are.”
“The world is going to keep changing.”
“We can never escape the past.”
“It’s a hard world to be in.”
“You can’t understand everything at once.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do – we do it all the time.”
“I want to tell stories about people who are surprising – even to themselves.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable.”
“It’s a hard world to be in, and nothing comes easy, you know.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do.”
“The world is going to keep changing no matter how much we don’t want it to.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be treated as chapters of novels. They should be stories.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way to make itself relevant.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless.”
“The past is always changing, but we can’t stop it from changing.”