“After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.”

“I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.”

“I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.”

“But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.”

“I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.”

“Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life.”

“She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.”