Cecilia Moar

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings..”
― W.H. Auden

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories