Augusta

“All there is to thinking,” he said, “is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“Then he asked, “After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? “Only then will you understand what happened and why. “It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories