Цитаты из книги Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Some moments in a life, and they needn’t be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one the price of the human connection:…

— Извини, — быстро проговорил я. — Я беру обратно. — Что ты берешь обратно? — То, что сказал: что ты не моешь после себя ванну. — Ни к чему тебе брать свои слова обратно, — упрямо проговорил отец. — Ты сказал правду. Человек никогда не должен брать обратно свои слова, если это правда.

Every time she came near me, she seemed to envelop me; she seemed deeper than water, as inescapable as air; I felt myself suffocating in the foul, sticky web she was spinning with her laughter.

I was beginning to apprehend the unutterable dimensions of the universal trap. I was human, too. And my race was revealed as my pain—my pain—and my rage could have no reason, nor submit to my domination, until my pain was assessed; until my pain became invested with a coherence and an authority which only I, alone, could…