“I was a servant of Eros: that is what he wants to say, but does he have the effrontery? It was a god who acted through me. What vanity! Yet not a lie, not entirely. In the whole wretched business… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Lucy, my dearest, why don’t you want to tell? It was a crime. There is no shame in being the object of a crime.… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I was a servant of Eros: that is what he wants to say, but does he have the effrontery? It was a god who… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“No, that is true, they are not tight up against each other in the sky, there is a tiny gap between them. That is… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“My case rests on the rights of desire,’ he says. ‘On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.” — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough cars, shoes,… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)” — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object. (111)” — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
