"The Whistling Season" Quotes
A widower and his three sons encounter a spirited housekeeper and a mysterious schoolteacher in rural Montana.
fiction | 345 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
The only thing I ever saw that came close to the grandeur of a Montana cattle range was the sea.
The big ranches were running on borrowed time, and everyone knew it.
I had a feeling that the real action of the day was never going to be seen, that it would be the things that weren't said that mattered most.
Grief had a way of stopping time, of isolating you from the world, of making everything else seem frivolous.
He had learned the hard way the most important things in life were the ones you never got to say, the things that never got said or resolved.
In the end, the best you can hope for is to find a place to live where you are comfortable and where you and your family can be happy.
There's more to learning than just books.
It's like I've been seeing things wrong all my life, and now I'm finally seeing them right.
The real world doesn't reward perfectionists. It rewards people who get things done.
It was a good day for him, and for some reason, it was more than a good day for me.
