Alice Munro

"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."

"'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everyt…"

"A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors…"

"You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."

"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."

"Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again."

"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."