"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."

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Source : "Unless". Book by Carol Shields, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2002.

Carol Shields

#Moving Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Different Quotes

“The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.”
“It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.”
“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”
“He couldn't undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn't matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.”
“The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.”
“This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.”
“Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.”
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouthâ€”I count that something of a miracle.”

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