Light in August

. After all, there must be some things for which God cannot be accused by man and held responsible. There must be.’

MEMORY believes before knowing remembers.

Наконец-то хотя бы женщину из неё сделал, — думал он. — Теперь она меня ненавидит. Хотя бы этому я её научил.

Не так страшна человеку беда, которая случилась, как та, которая может случиться.

Когда человек решает, чего не делать, тут, я думаю, он сам себе советчик. Но когда до делать доходит - тут, по-моему, стоит посоветоваться со всеми, с кем можно.

Хорошие женщины мучаются с хамами, пропойцами и прочими. Но от какого хама, какая женщина, хороша она или плоха, пострадала так, как страдают мужчины от хороших женщин?

Already he can feel the two instants about to touch: the one which is the sum of his life, which renews itself between each dark and dusk, and the suspended instant out of which the soon will presently begin.

. ‘Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,’ he thought quietly. ‘Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.’

‘So this is love. I see. I was wrong about it too,’ thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

‘It seems like a man can just about bear anything. He can even bear what he never done. He can even bear the thinking how some things is just more than he can bear. He can even bear it that if he could just give down and cry, he wouldn’t do it. He can even bear it to not look back, even when he knows that looking back or not looking back won’t do him any good.’