All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
Mavis GallantDecide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.
Mavis GallantI wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.
Mavis GallantAgainst the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.
Mavis Gallant