"[narrating]My father looked at me for a long time, just looked at me and this was the last he and I ever said to me a…"

"In my family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout river…"

"The Burns family ran a general store in a one store town and still managed to do badly. They were Methodist, a denomi…"

"[narrating] In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."

"[narrating] As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold on to, asking me again and again: had I told him eve…"

"The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana."

"[narrating] That was the only time we fought. Perhaps we wondered after which one of us was tougher. But if boyhood q…"

"[narrating] Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do …"

"Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same questio…"

"Craig Sheffer - Norman Maclean"