The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day. - Heidi Pitlor

Furthermore, in a new study reported in the journal Science, subjects who read Alice Munro stories — specifically, the collection Too Much Happiness — demonstrated sharper social and psychological insight than those who did not.

I think our hopes are made when we are young, and we can never adjust them to the real world.

Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?