The Zone Quotes

“The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life’s usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

“The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story