Carol Shields Quotes

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

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

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.

Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.

Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.

...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.