تكسو وجهه تعاسة صامته، تعاسة إنسان سيق لمواجهة الحقائق، عندما تكون الحقائق كسكرات الموت.

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your decep…”

“Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring…”

“In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of a long road…”

“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no fu…”