Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
“[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.”
“He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.”
“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”
“Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?”
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”
“Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.”
“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”
“Hard writing makes easy reading.”
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Book Keywords:
reading, writing, friendship
