Ben

“Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A reparation, a duty. And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The unpaved street we were now living on had no past and no future but only a wan present in which it was hard to think of anything to do.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“Now was the moment to forget about that door I tud walked through without thinking, and about the void that could sometimes be bridged in dreams, and about the way things used to be when my mother was alive. Instead, I dung to them more tightly than ever, even as I was being drawn willy-nilly into my father's new life.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“We had moved from our fixed position and there was now no possibility of getting back to the way things were before she died. I could not tell whether the heavy feeling in my chest had to do with what might happen or with what had already happened and was irremediable.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow