Fling and Other Stories Quotes

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn’t quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn’t love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful “just deserts,” which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.”
― John Hersey, Fling and Other Stories

“…she looked like Vivien, the Lady of the Lake, only she was fat and her lake was dust, sand and dust, bones and dust and sand.”
― John Hersey, Fling and Other Stories

“The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.”
― John Hersey, Fling and Other Stories