Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. - Alice Munro

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

I want my stories to move people, I don’t care if they are men or women or children. I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.