The Beggar Maid Quotes

“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“...the world is tumbling with innocent-seeming objects ready to declare themselves, slippery and obliging.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“Learning to survive, no matter with what cravenness and caution, what shocks and forebodings, is not the same as being miserable. It is too interesting.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“To dare it; to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“It was a miracle; it was a mistake. It was what she had dreamed of; it was not what she wanted.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

“Patrick had a trick-no, it was not a trick, Patrick had no tricks - Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to know something he did not. His arrogance and humility were both oddly exaggerated.”
― Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose