Alice Munro: Herring

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“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind… When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”

Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness

Source: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)

“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
Source: Away from Her

“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”

Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness

Source: "Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)

“He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.”

Source: Away from Her

“What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.”