Quotes by : Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

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....

These hips are mighty hips.These hips are magic hips.I have known themto put a spell on a manand spin....

Practically all girls are capable of pulling off theLady Love stunt before marriage but alas, only toomany....

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

How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted.....

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....

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