“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way.”
“I want to tell stories about people.”
“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”
Alice Munro Quotes :
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“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.”
“The stories are about the things that people can’t always say out loud.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be treated as chapters of novels. They should be stories.”
“You can’t understand everything at once, we understand one thing, then another, and in some way they all fit together.”
“The past is always changing, but we can’t stop it from changing.”
“We change how we look at life, but life doesn’t change.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are.”
“If we didn’t have mysteries, we’d have nothing to think about.”
“We can never escape the past, and it shapes who we are.”
“It’s a hard world to be in, and nothing comes easy, you know.”
“We can never escape the past.”
“It’s a hard world to be in.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love.”
“A story is not like a road to follow… it’s more like a house.”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
“Love removes the world for you.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”
“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.”
“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels.”
“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.”
“You can’t understand everything at once.”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way to make itself relevant.”
“The world is going to keep changing.”
“A story is not like a road to follow.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things.”
“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 until it entered her own life.”
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“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.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are and all that. They never stop to think about what you are.”