Shannon

“What tender memories did I have of Sarah? Much talk about human suffering and what could be done about it- and then infantile silliness for relief. We collected jokes for each other, to use when it was time for relief. We became addicted to talking to each other on the telephone for hours. Those talks were the most agreeable narcotic I have ever known. We became disembodied-like free-floating souls on the planet Vicuna.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“I spoke to the lilies of the valley. "Good morning," I said.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“It may be that Ruth protected herself from dread of the gathering storm, or, more accurately, from dread of the gathering silence, by reverting during the daytime, when I was at work, to the Ophelia-like elation she had felt after her liberation-when she had thought of herself as a bird all alone with God.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“Sarah Wyatt believed that sex was a sort of pratfall that was easily avoided. To avoid it, she had only to remind a would-be lover of the ridiculousness of what he proposed to do to her.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird