Important Quotations Explained
1. He looked steadily at me and then answered my thoughts. “Whatever
you are thinking now is wrong. It is cowardly.” I couldn't deny it. He
lifted my chin up and looked at me firmly again. “Promise me that no matter
what happens you will never do it.”
2. “I hope you will never be disillusioned. To you, life still means
beauty, and that is how it should be. Continue to go through mud without
dirtying your feet.” She spoke without explanation or introduction and
without finishing, and then she stalked away towards our
quarters.
3. My eyes remained dry. I felt my features turn stony. “Now I have
to live,” I said to myself, “because I am alone and nothing can hurt me any
more.”
4. There is a watch lying on the green carpet of the living room of
my childhood. The hands seem to stand motionless at 9:10, freezing time when
it happened.
5. I had reached the summit, as I had dreamed I would in the dark
years of slavery, and there, beyond the sphere of human vision, we met and
embraced. We would never be alone again.
