“The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals” Our LivesLonelinessComfortWeatherEvolveRehearsalPostponement Author:Carol Shields
“Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.” ThinkingHumansUseLanguageOur Lives Author:Carol Shields
“It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.” GivingSometimesStoriesAbleSleepKnowingOur LivesEventsStructureInsaneBreathingThrowingWakingArrangementsHindsightThrowing Away Author:Carol Shields
