Becky

“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

“Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.”
― 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

“Buenos dias," she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose