Laurel

“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.”
― Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land

“Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanations; monuments to themselves, in other words. In my view all teachers should be required to stop teaching at age thirty-two and not allowed to resume until they're sixty-five, so that they can live their lives, not teach them away - live lives full of ambiguity and transience and regret and wonder, be asked to explain nothing in public until very near the end when they can't do anything else.
Explaining is where we all get into trouble.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter