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“The thing about fishing is that it gives a man hope. Each cast builds a little hope and if he can lose himself to that hope, then the worries and the heartache fade into the background. The wind inside him dies down for a while.’ Papa said it was like the river was the window he had to climb through to reclaim a lost part of himself. Isn’t that beautiful? I”
― Keith McCafferty, The Royal Wulff Murders

“God Is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference to the world outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from Missoula, Montana.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“You feel guilt when you intentionally—that’s intentionally—do something to cause another person harm or pain. Regret is when you wish you somehow acted differently, that you could have done something to change an outcome. You may have regrets,”
― Peter J. Ryan, Edge of the Sawtooth: A Gripping Mystery Set in The Mountains of Montana: (Rick Morrand Mystery Book I)