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"The Wapshot Chronicle" Quotes
"The Wapshot Chronicle" by John Cheever follows the lives of the Wapshot family members navigating eccentric traditions, personal dilemmas, and small-town scandals in a New England village.
Quotes
It was one of those Sunday afternoons when the air was full of music.
The sight of the moon had always seemed to him to promise renewal.
Memory is like a child walking along a seashore.
The world was full of strange and wonderful things.
They lived in a house that was like a ship at anchor.
Life was full of little mysteries, and he was glad of it.
He felt a sudden and overwhelming peace.
The past was always with him, like a shadow.
There was a kind of magic in the air.
He loved the sound of the ocean, the way it seemed to sing to him.
