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