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