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> [“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/dorrie-gave-larry-s-hand-an-excited-distracted-squeeze-that-said/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

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## More by Carol Shields

> [“Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/dreaming-her-way-backward-in-time-resurrecting-images-the-young-girl/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/he-wondered-exactly-how-lost-a-person-could-get-lost-at-sea-lost-in/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/dorrie-gave-larry-s-hand-an-excited-distracted-squeeze-that-said/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“…it's occurred to her that there are millions, billions, of other men and women in the world who wake up early in their separate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/it-s-occurred-to-her-that-there-are-millions-billions-of-other-men/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/nothing-she-did-or-said-was-quite-what-she-meant-but-still-her-life/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/so-this-is-where-the-years-of-maturity-deliver-us-to-this-needy/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/in-a-long-and-healthy-life-which-is-what-most-of-us-have-there-is/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“This was during a period in my reading life when I was given to understand that "relating" to the fictional characters or situation was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/this-was-during-a-period-in-my-reading-life-when-i-was-given-to/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/open-a-book-this-minute-and-start-reading-don-t-move-until-you-ve/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/a-woman-s-life-isn-t-worth-a-plateful-of-cabbage-if-she-hasn-t-felt/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework. Not surprisingly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/i-won-t-even-mention-the-swift-transitory-reward-of-lemon-spray-wax/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“A Canadian journalist named Pinky Fulham was killed when a soft drinks vending machine overturned, crushing him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/a-canadian-journalist-named-pinky-fulham-was-killed-when-a-soft/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“Men, it seemed to me in those days, were uniquely honored by the stories that erupted in their lives, whereas women were more likely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/men-it-seemed-to-me-in-those-days-were-uniquely-honored-by-the/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/bookish-people-who-are-often-maladroit-people-persist-in-thinking/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

> [“Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-shields/safety-was-one-thing-but-what-he-really-wanted-was-to-be-electrified/)

[Carol Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-shields/)

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