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Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer a good whacking loss, and our lives in a sense catch up with us and wash over us like a wave and everything goes.

— Richard Ford The Sportswriter (1986)

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"You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better."

Wildlife (1990)

It's probably nice to know your parents were once not your parents.

Wildlife (1990)

One day you think you never even made a choice and then you have to make one, even a wrong one, just so you're sure you're still able. And once that's over, you can go back and be happy again with what you were before you started worrying.

A Piece of My Heart (1976)

Her complexion seemed slowly to be losing its olive color, and the set of her mouth hardened as though interior shifts were taking place she herself didn't know about but which had already corrected her outlook toward the rest of the world.

A Piece of My Heart (1976)

In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.

Wildlife (1990)

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