Becky

“It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose