“And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.”
Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist
Source: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?”
Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist
Source: Dear Life: Stories
“You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.”
Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness
Source: Too Much Happiness
“Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.”
Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness
Source: Too Much Happiness
“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness
Source: Too Much Happiness
Alice Munro book Runaway
Source: Runaway (2004)
Context: This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”
Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist
Source: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
“He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.”
Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist
Source: Away from Her
“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
Alice Munro book Open Secrets
Source: Open Secrets (1994)