Best Alice Munro Sayings
- So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which… Find
- He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life. From
- Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. Bumped
- I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for… Building
- There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done. Any
- I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked… Antics
- 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… Been
- And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down… All
- I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question… Age
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. Come Sooner
- 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… All
- In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places. All
- I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but… Busy
- My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. Bright
- I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have… Absolutely
- 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. Absurd
- His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had… All
- As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his… All
- And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. Busy
- She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved… Any
- It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great… Almost Seemed
- The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in… All
- As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous… Age
- 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… Few
- Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't… Air
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