89 Quotes by Carol Shields

Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate mystery to me.

Here’s to another year and let’s hope it’s above ground.

It’s hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

We are too kind, too willing – too unwilling too – reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don’t even know we want.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal – otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

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, watching him grow to manhood, that’s what love is.

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us – to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else’s first and primal other.

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it’s smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.