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