Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries (1993)

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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

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