Swimming Back to Trout River Quotes

“One generation removed from the enterprise of reproduction, grandparents saw children as genuinely open possibilities. Unlike parents, who needed to see the best parts of themselves duplicated in their offspring, grandparents rarely had such prideful agendas -- and for that very reason, they ironically imprinted more of themselves on the young.”
― Linda Rui Feng, Swimming Back to Trout River

“But she knew, without really knowing she did, that the gossamer threads we put out into the world turned into filaments, and filaments into tendrils, and that what people called destiny was really the outward contours of billions of these tendrils, as they exerted their tug on each of us.”
― linda rui feng, Swimming Back to Trout River

“ut she knew, without really knowing she did, that the gossamer threads we put out into the world turned into filaments, and filaments into tendrils, and that what people called destiny was really the outward contours of billions of these tendrils, as they exerted their tug on each of us.”
― Linda Rui Feng, Swimming Back to Trout River