Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life Quotes

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.

I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.