Quotes by : Carol Shields

Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into....

Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be....

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

Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long....

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a....

From surfeit to loss is a short line.

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

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've....

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on....