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