My Heart Is Broken Quotes

“If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.”
― Mavis Gallant, My Heart Is Broken

“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”
― Mavis Gallant, My Heart Is Broken

“It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.”
― Mavis Gallant, My Heart Is Broken

“If your life isn't exactly the way you want it to be by the time you are forty-five," said Walter's father, whom he admired, "not much point in continuing. You might as well hang yourself.”
― Mavis Gallant, My Heart Is Broken

“She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.”
― Mavis Gallant, My Heart Is Broken