Affliction Quotes

“One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of step, was somehow removed from everyone else's sense of time and place, so that the slightest movement, word, facial expression or gesture contained enormous significance. The room filled with coded messages that he could not decode, and he slipped quickly into barely controlled hysteria.”
― Russell Banks, Affliction: A PEN/Faulkner Finalist American Literature Thriller of Dysfunctional Family and Violence

“Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them curious about him -- for here he was alone in his world; and there they were gathered together in theirs.”
― Russell Banks, Affliction: A PEN/Faulkner Finalist American Literature Thriller of Dysfunctional Family and Violence