Alice Munro Quotes

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

I start where the last man left off.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday