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