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