Quotes of Carol Shields - somelinesforyou

“ How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future. ”

- Carol Shields

“ Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life. ”

- Carol Shields

“ It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year has ended and another begun. There is something here that speaks of our essential helplessness and how the greater substance of our lives is bound up with waste and opacity... How can so much time hold so little, how can it be taken from us? Months, weeks, days, hours misplaced – and the most precious time of life, too, when our bodies are at their greatest strength, and open, as they never will be again, to the onslaught of sensation. ”

- Carol Shields

“ Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. ”

- Carol Shields

“ Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ”

- Carol Shields

“ A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ”

- Carol Shields

“ It was a very emotional time. ”

- Carol Shields

“ It was a very emotional time. ”

- Carol Shields

“ There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields

“ I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ”

- Carol Shields
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