It isn't only the sadness of the face. It isn't only the way he is smoking, letting the cigarette hand drop from his mouth like a man who don't care. He is not sprawling to show off. He is like a man who break his back in truth. It is the face of a tired, foolish boy. It is the face of someone lost. It is the same face of the boy who wake up in the room and look at me with terror. And I feel that if anything happen now to frighten him that mouth will open in a scream.

Tell Me Who to Kill
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul

 

 

  quotes:   Chang-rae Lee  |  Leslie Marmon Silko  |  V.S. Naipaul  |  W.E.B DuBois  |  Vikram Seth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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