A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

Carol Shields
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  1. Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. - Alasdair Gray

  2. Everything is possible in this world so don't fear anything - Anonymous

  3. Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker. - Sunday Adelaja

  4. The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility. - Anna Quindlen

  5. A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

More Quotes By Carol Shields
  1. Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

  2. How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past...

  3. It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year has ended and another begun. There is something here that speaks...

  4. Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

  5. Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean?...

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