Quotes by Carol Shields

Carol Shields

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

Childhood

Fiction

Memories

A woman’s life isn’t worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn’t felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that’s what love is.

Heart

Love Is

Nurse

Anyone’s childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Certain

Childhood

Light

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Buried

Pairs

Trunks

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

Blessing

Letting Go

Long Walks

I couldn’t have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

Children

Mother

Unique

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Fall

Morning

Powerful

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal – otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

Forget

Learning

Records

It’s the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It’s throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don’t like to admit it, sometimes it’s the only thing.

Breathing

Knowing

Sleep

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Light

Movement

Said

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Blessing

Breathing

Buried

Certain

Chapters

Childhood

Children

Fall

Fiction

Forget

Genuine

Hands

Heart

Knowing

Learning

Letting Go

Life

Life Is

Light

Loneliness

Long Walks

Love Is

Made

Memories

Men

Morning

Mother

Movement

Moving

Nurse

Pairs

Powerful

Quality

Records

Rehearsal

Said

Scolding

Self Discovery

Sleep

Stories

Trunks

Unique

Voice

Want

Weather

Weight

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Quotes by Carol Shields

Carol Shields

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

A woman’s life isn’t worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn’t felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that’s what love is.

Anyone’s childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

I couldn’t have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal – otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

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