Sarah’s Reviews > The Old Man and the Sea > Status Update

“It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides, I believe it is a sin. Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also, I have no understanding of it.

“ ‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’”

“ I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine but his pain could drive him mad.”

“And pain does not matter to a man.”

“Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.”

“The thousand times that he proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

“I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run. If I were him I would put in everything joe and go until something broke.”

“Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

“I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?”

“He […] tried not to think but only to endure.”