“What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.” p. 5
“He was thinking about automatic teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory.” p. 54
“It is what people think they see in another person that makes his reality. If they think he walks at a slant, then he walks at a slant, uncoordinated, because that is his role in the lives around him.” p. 57
p. 180 (backwards)
“How could he take a step in any direction if all directions were the same?”
“There was nowhere he wanted to go, nothing to think about, no one waiting.”
“He hadn’t planned on this. Where was the life he’d always led?”
“He hadn’t realized this could happen to him. The moment was empty of urgency and purpose.”
“He stood in the street. There was nothing to do.”