Top 25 Quotes by Carol Shields of 33 - Page 2

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

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.

Carol Shields

Sleep, Breathing, Knowing

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

Quality, Made, Genuine

Carol Shields (1996). “Small Ceremonies”, G K Hall & Company

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields

Loneliness, Feeling Lonely, Feels

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Shields

People, Concerned

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

Mother, Children, Unique