So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
Alice MunroCountry manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
Alice MunroWhat she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".
Alice MunroThe unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
Alice MunroI just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.
Alice Munro