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