She would give no explanation of the real reasons for her death.

I am just someone screaming for help in world that does not care about it

The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of children's hearts as if they were something holy; it is hard for a parent to know what to say.

She barely notices when I say that I am going on to Toronto to visit my grandparents. Except to remark that they must be really old. Not a word about Alister. Not even a bad word. She would not have forgotten. Just tidied up the scene and put it away in a closet with her former selves. Or maybe she really is a person who can deal recklessly with humiliation.

Now I no longer believe that people’s secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize. I don’t believe so.

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.

What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.

They went bowling and curling and regularly joined other couples for coffee and doughnuts at Tim Horton’s.

What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever.

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

Alice Munro

Quotes by Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

Written By Alice Munro

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