Mavis Gallant Quotes

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

- Mavis Gallant

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She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies. - Mavis Gallant

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy. - Mavis Gallant

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. - Mavis Gallant