“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.”
“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“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.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
“They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”
“Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?”
“Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.”
“There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own.
My ATC's ready for trading….will be interesting if anyone chooses these. I did them as a tribute for her.
Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013….the first Canadian
to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. She has written 14 volumes of short stories.
janice.b.sexton@gmail.com
