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.
âLife would be grand if it weren& #39;t for the people.â
"That& #39;s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."
âLove dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead.â
âWe say of some things that they can& #39;t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do -- we do it all the time.â