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.
Alice MunroThe skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Alice MunroNow that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
Alice MunroI saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself.
Alice Munro