Charlotte Munro quote: "I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just ink and stains. This was life and I was holding it in my hands. I drew my eyes back up and beneath the flickering streetlight and the throng of drunken cattle, I saw nothing else but the dead girl. Somebody out there had taken her life, her heart, and there I was with her warm, sticky blood. Feeling the most alive I’d felt in years.<br />I had to find him. I just had to."

I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO

Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, kni...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO

Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be...
ALICE MUNRO

The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, ...
ADAM MUNRO

They made some pretty good shots. They seemed to take advantage of their power plays and they've obv...
ADAM MUNRO

It's good to get back in there and have a pretty solid game. It's a great feeling to get two points....
ADAM MUNRO

It's good to play well and get the result you want. The two points are the biggest thing.
ADAM MUNRO

Bad goals to give up, the first and third. I've got to be better than that. Trent did the right thin...
ADAM MUNRO

I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner, and obviously it didn't go far enough. It w...
ADAM MUNRO

I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner and obviously it didn't go far enough. It wa...
ADAM MUNRO

You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I trie...
ADAM MUNRO

He's been a big help. He changed my style to make me more in control. Before I was more reacting and...
ADAM MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ...
ALICE MUNRO

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin...
ALICE MUNRO

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea...
ALICE MUNRO

Losing is a part of winning.
DICK MUNRO

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig...
BARRY MUNRO

I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of...
BARRY MUNRO

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ...
ALICE MUNRO

I'm sorry I'm not able to be here. It is this attention of yours that has helped me to flourish for ...
ALICE MUNRO

The Love of a Good Women.
ALICE MUNRO

Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go...
ALICE MUNRO

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the ...
ALICE MUNRO

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...
ALICE MUNRO

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u...
ALICE MUNRO

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or l...
ALICE MUNRO

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t...
ALICE MUNRO

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way ever...
ALICE MUNRO

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy...
ALICE MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In ...
ALAN MUNRO

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a ...
ALICE MUNRO

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there ...
ALICE MUNRO

Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a sp...
ALICE MUNRO

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finis...
ALICE MUNRO

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to wr...
ALICE MUNRO

That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's g...
ALICE MUNRO

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, ...
ALICE MUNRO

Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really...
JESS MUNRO

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - ...
ALICE MUNRO

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
ALICE MUNRO

For me this place is absolutely sacred, it is absolutely special,
JIM MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option.
ROBIN MUNRO

She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much ti...
BILL MUNRO

I think she felt really good with it.
BILL MUNRO

Many of the British groups marched (into battle) with pipes.
BILL MUNRO

That's unbelievable. After the preliminaries, we had to adjust to not using starting blocks. I guess...
BILL MUNRO

Just look around here. There are a lot of families here.
BILL MUNRO

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...
ALICE MUNRO

She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus...
BILL MUNRO

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...
ALICE MUNRO

She was in the loaded heat for sure. She clipped the third hurdle with her leg again. She had a good...
BILL MUNRO

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...
ALICE MUNRO

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and g...
ALICE MUNRO

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
ALICE MUNRO

گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه ...
ALICE MUNRO

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO

I'm really excited for our team. The guys came together to win a hard-fought, tight, ball game. They...
JAMIE MUNRO

We had a lot on our list to accomplish this season. (Beating) Valdosta was one of those. They kept u...
LYNDSAY MUNRO

They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t...
JESS MUNRO

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And thi...
ALICE MUNRO

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th...
ALICE MUNRO

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything h...
ALICE MUNRO

I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov a...
ALICE MUNRO

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there ha...
ALICE MUNRO

It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, And...
ADAM MUNRO

He made a big save. He must be listening to the goaltending coach, because he used the body pretty w...
ADAM MUNRO

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor...
ALICE MUNRO

The constant happiness is curiosity.
ALICE MUNRO

I had my first baby at twenty-one.
ALICE MUNRO

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th...
ALICE MUNRO

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO

It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
ALICE MUNRO

But we aren't a camping family.
JAMIE MUNRO

It was amazing. You had two huge crowds on the same night. You'd think they'd take away from each ot...
JAMIE MUNRO

It's grown so fast, it's hard to find the expertise for a start-up program.
JAMIE MUNRO

We had a good game today. Jeb had a great game and we had some guys really step up for us on both th...
JAMIE MUNRO

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea...
JAMIE MUNRO

When you're 22 years old, you may or may not be a man. (Snider) is a man. He has been through a lot ...
JAMIE MUNRO

I think we really try to make our guys multi-dimensional. We want complete players.
JAMIE MUNRO

That's not going to happen. You become smarter. You learn from your mistakes. It's not going to happ...
LYNDSAY MUNRO

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ...
ALICE MUNRO

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselve...
ALICE MUNRO

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could ...
ALICE MUNRO

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,&#...
ALICE MUNRO

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...
ALICE MUNRO

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ...
ALICE MUNRO

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w...
ALICE MUNRO

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
J. RICHARD MUNRO

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO

Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY

But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY

Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN

I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON

I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle
and your hands in mine.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

You can kid the world, but not your sister.
CHARLOTTE GRAY

Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
And you can ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don�...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighte...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos...
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
CHARLOTTE BARNARD

Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Look twice before you leap.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Charlotte Munro

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