“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”Richard Ford The SportswriterSource: The Sportswriter
“"I'm not worried," I said. And I wasn't, because I thought things would be fine. And even though I was wrong, it is still not so bad a way to set your mind toward the unknown just when you are coming into the face of it.”Richard Ford Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 17
“And though they may both have felt that something had died between them, something they may not even have been aware or until it was gone and disappeared from their lives forever, they must've felt - both of them - that there was something of themselves, something important, that could not live at all in any other way but by their being together, much as they had been before.”Richard Ford Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 176