#485 So Many Chances- Anthony Doerr
The wonders of the ocean are all new to Dorotea, a
fourteen-year old girl just moved to Casco Bay, Mane from Ohio. She is
immediately struck by the vastness of it:
“She had not expected emptiness, flittery light, a blotted
horizon. Waves march in from some obscure haze. For a terrifying moment she can
imagine herself the only organism on the planet.”
She quickly finds that the closer you look at things as vast
as the ocean, the more you see it teeming with life. She meets a young
fisherman and so she learns to fish. When the boy goes away though, she still
wants to fish. Like the shells brought by the waves, these are things left
behind by the people in our lives.
Her father and the boy are not the perfect people she thinks
they are, but that’s ok. The waves will bring more chances tomorrow to catch a
fish.
Notable Passage: “Life can turn out a million ways…but the
one way life will not turn out is the way you dream it.”
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