Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent.
Anthony DoerrDoes it matter? In memory, in story, in the end, we can remake our lives any way we need. To be surprised, truly and utterly surprised by what came into your life - this, Winkler was learning, was the true gift.
Anthony DoerrThey would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.
Anthony DoerrAn hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges, the overflow finally giving way - he could not longer suffer his own cowardice.
Anthony DoerrFor lunches he rode the elevator to the fourth-floor food court and ate Thai Town or Subway at a table tucked among potted tropicals, gazing past milling teenagers to the little penny-choked fountain where a copper salmon spat water into a chlorinated pool.
Anthony DoerrShe said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.
Anthony DoerrHadn't the actors acted of their own volition?
Anthony DoerrYou think that's going to exonerate you?
Anthony Doerrthat a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.
Anthony Doerrhis heart laced with regret.
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