Monte Peters

“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“Most things don't stay the way they are very long.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.”
― Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue

“The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.”
― Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue