Samedi the Deafness Quotes

“Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.”
― Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness

“You live your life, you try to live compassionately, and that's the end of it. You do a little more than you should have to in order to be a good person, but you don't go making big changes in the world, trying to fix things. It presumes too much to do so. There's only this: if everyone acts quietly, compassionately, things will go a little better than they would have otherwise. But people will still suffer.”
― Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness

“-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof and went into a coma. She came out of it, though. Everyone was so happy.

-Is that true? asked James.

-No, said Grieve. But they would have been happy. Everyone thinks she's so clever. And I would be happy if she went away and never came back.”
― Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness

“The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.”
― Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness

“En sevdiği oyuncağıydı. Neydi? Kırmızıya boyanmış, ufak, tahta bir kuş. Kırmızıydı, gerçekten öyleydi; tam da gün ışığında, gölgede, mumlarla, şöminenin başında ona bakan bir oğlan çocuğunu hayallere daldıracak, parlak, tatlı bir kırmızı. Ama muhabbetkuşu ya da öyle değersiz bir tür olduğunu sanmayın. Hayır, onun kuşu bir baykuştu.”
― Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness