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