Today is Alice Munro appreciation day. These sentences. These sentences that stop you in your tracks. These sentences that break you, they just make you mull over the exacting nature of emotion, of what it evokes in you, and how it makes you see the world. Alice Munro, a thread.

“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”

“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”

“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”

“It’s just life. You can’t beat life.”

"That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."

“Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead.”

“people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one”

“My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.”

“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do -- we do it all the time.”

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind,' her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. 'When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”

Fin.