“124 was spiteful. Full of baby’s venom.”
“A screaming comes across the sky.”
“You better not never tell nobody but God.”
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”
“Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you’re dead.”
“For a long time, I went to bed early.”
“True! — Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
“Where now? Who now? When now?”
“Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”
“Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.”
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
“Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there’s a peephole in the door, and my keeper’s eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.”
“I heard the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”
“This all happened, more or less.”