350 Quotes by Alice Munro

A los hombres les encantan las rarezas cuando la chica es lo suficientemente bonita

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.

Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement thatyou were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion—calm above the surface of your life, surviving, though the pain ofthe cold continued to wash into your body.

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

Children use that word "hate" to mean various things. It may mean that they are frightened...It is not physical harm that is feared...so much as some spell, or dark intention. It is a feeling you can have when you are very young even about certain house faces, or tree trunks, or very much about moldy cellars or deep closets.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

...sitting in the sand with her back against a log, crying. She smiled at Kath, she said, 'don't think I'm sad'.

Любов. Добре, що вона в неї була. Але чому в господарстві Всесвіту випадково виникає якийсь несправедливий дисбаланс, коли велике щастя однієї людини - нехай нетривале і хистке - живиться великим нещастям іншої.

Cuando estás fatal es cuando intentan pillarte.