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