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 Carol Shields More Quotes by Carol Shields More Quotes From Carol Shields And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions. Carol Shields anxiety stars thinking The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals Carol Shields rehearsal loneliness weather 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. Carol Shields unique mother children Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. Carol Shields buried trunks pairs I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. Carol Shields concerned people 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 genuine quality made 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 selfish maturity years Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields another-year years A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. Carol Shields childhood memories fiction It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day. Carol Shields hard hard-work persons The silence is perfect, and yet a torment. Carol Shields torment silence perfect In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time. Carol Shields healthy-life healthy long
