“Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”
“It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.”
“There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.”
“the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.”
“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”
“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.”