“Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over.”

—  Tim Winton

Part III, Ch.4 - p.238, 239
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

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