Carol Shields Quotes

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

Carol Shields

They know after all this time about love — that it's dim and unreliable and little more than a reflection on the wall. It is also capricious, idiotic, sentimental, imperfect and inconstant, and most often seems to be the exclusive preserve of others.

Carol Shields

Canada is a country where nothing seems ever to happen. A country always dressed in its Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. A country you wouldn't ask to dance a second waltz. Clean. Christian. Dull. Quiescent. But growing. Yes, it must be admitted, the Dominion is growing.

Carol Shields

When we say a thing or an event is real, never mind how suspect it sounds, we honour it. But when a thing is made up—regardless of how true and just it seems—we turn up our noses.

Carol Shields

To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end?

Carol Shields

Carol Shields

Carol Shields

Born: June 2, 1935

Died: July 16, 2003 (aged 68)

Bio: Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

Known for:

The Stone Diaries (1993)
Unless (2002)
Larry's Party (1997)
Small ceremonies (1976)
The box garden (1977)

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