“Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.”
“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.”
Carol Shields“I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.”
Carol Shields“Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.”
Carol Shields“Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.”
Carol Shields, Unless“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.”
Carol Shields, Unless“A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.”
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries“Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.”
Carol Shields, Larry's Party“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
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