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> [“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my had. As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/if-i-could-tell-you-only-one-thing-about-my-life-it-would-be-this/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

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## More by Brady Udall

> [“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/if-i-could-tell-you-only-one-thing-about-my-life-it-would-be-this/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/for-most-affairs-this-eventually-becomes-the-most-fundamental-of/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/families-are-forever-and-wondered-if-the-slogan-was-meant-as-a/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/if-i-could-tell-you-only-one-thing-about-my-life-it-would-be-this-2/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“Because this, after all, was the basic truth they all chose to live by: that love was no finite commodity. That it was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/because-this-after-all-was-the-basic-truth-they-all-chose-to-live-by/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“For Golden it was hard not to think that there might be something wrong about a household in which the dog was wearing underwear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/for-golden-it-was-hard-not-to-think-that-there-might-be-something/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/she-considered-maybe-for-the-first-time-how-lucky-she-was-to-be-able/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/when-she-s-next-to-him-when-she-rests-her-hand-on-his-his-whole-body/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/but-golden-s-dark-form-in-the-doorway-had-imprinted-something-new-and/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“. . . Golden would find himself thinking that if he ever became delusional or foolhardy enough to outfit one of his houses with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/golden-would-find-himself-thinking-that-if-he-ever-became-delusional/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/if-i-could-tell-you-only-one-thing-about-my-life-it-would-be-this-3/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange fact of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/even-in-the-midst-of-all-this-commotion-she-knows-none-of-it-really/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/the-life-of-a-plural-wife-she-d-found-was-a-life-lived-under-constant/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/there-was-one-difference-i-would-come-to-realize-between-white-kids/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

> [“It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brady-udall/it-s-a-wonderful-epiphany-with-a-lie-i-can-change-reality-with-a-lie/)

[Brady Udall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brady-udall/)

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