The River Knows Your Name Quotes

“some of what had been lost to her, those memories that adults hold of their earliest years only because of the stories told and retold to them so often that the stories become memories ingrained.”
― Kelly Mustian, The River Knows Your Name: A Novel

“Becca had been well versed in dealing with the snobbery of small-minded people, in discerning the phony from the sincere, but this woman had an inscrutable veneer of composure. She was difficult to read.”
― Kelly Mustian, The River Knows Your Name: A Novel

“You don't give up on a dream all at once. First you pare it down some. Could be you dreamed a little too big, you think. Reached a little too far. You're older now, a grown-up, so you whittle a little more off that dream. Work it in around everything else. Give it some time here, some hope there, whatever you can spare. Then life throws you some curves, and you tell yourself it's just going to take a little longer, is all. A few more years, maybe. Time goes on, and the day comes when you realize that most of those big things you thought were going to happen in your life, all the places you were going to see and the things you were going to do, aren't going to happen at all...You've waited too long, squandered too much time...That rusty old dream has eluded you, and you're left with a life made mundane by the one thing that did not happen. That's how it was with me and singing...”
― Kelly Mustian, The River Knows Your Name