Alice Munro Quotes

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

Yes, I have made a woman cry.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.

You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.

I love my son, but I was never there for him, so I understand why he hates me.

Age is full of regrets and most of them are about treating people unkindly.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.