“And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.”
“Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.”
“Like Villa, I believed that even though some men did not deserve to go on living, they still deserved to be remembered at their best.”
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away that it could be a moving constellation.”
“If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.”
“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.”