“Can it be, I thought, can it actually be? …could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the briber and Rine the lover and Rinehart the Reverend? Could he himself be both rind… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“And he saw now that it wasn't real. That it had never been real. He could feel that other life shrinking and losing its possibility, and he knew that it was something that he should never, ever, think of again.” — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
