“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?” — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
“The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but… — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
“He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...” — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
“There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.” — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image
“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that… — Coetze, J.M Copy Share Image