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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
— Carol Shields
His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures
— Carol Shields
A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.
— Carol Shields
Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.
— Carol Shields
The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.
— Carol Shields
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
— Carol Shields
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
— Carol Shields
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
— Carol Shields
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light ...
— Carol Shields
Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.
— Carol Shields
It grieved him to think of that paltry, guarded, nut-like thing that was his artistic reputation.
— Carol Shields
'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.
— Willow Shields
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
— Carol Shields
What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed.
— Carol Shields
The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...
— Carol Shields
Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.
— Carol Shields
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
— Carol Shields
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
— Carol Shields
Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.
— Carol Shields
From surfeit to loss is a short line.
— Carol Shields
I am not at peace.' Daisy Goodwill's final (unspoken) words.
— Carol Shields
Routine is liberating, it makes you feel in control.
— Carol Shields
Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates.
— Carol Shields
I like to chant a couple of lines of poetry into the ozone layer every day or so, another caller says.
— Carol Shields
Either we're all ordinary, or else none of us is ordinary.
— Carol Shields
These hips are mighty hips.These hips are magic hips.
I have known them
to put a spell on a man
and spin him like a top — Carol Shields
This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup.
— Carol Shields
To be a romantic is to believe anything can happen to us.
— Carol Shields
He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.
— Carol Shields
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
— Carol Shields
The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...
— Carol Shields
