What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

- Margaret Laurence

I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my…

- Margaret Laurence

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

- Margaret Laurence

Follow your heart, and you perish.

- Margaret Laurence

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

- Margaret Laurence

I am rampant with memory.

- Margaret Laurence

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

- Margaret Laurence

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

- Margaret Laurence

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

- Margaret Laurence