So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)

Take all this away and what have you done to him? In the face of a deprivation so great, what is the use of asking him to go on being the boy he was. He might as well start life over again as some other boy instead.

New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.

people get older they get more alike in character and appearance and could all be leading the same life.

could not tell whether the heavy feeling in my chest had to do with what might happen or with what had already happened and was irremediable.

so that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God lead his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing.

give way to it as if it was a sexual temptation. The house we lived in has changed hands several times, and some fairly recent owner sheared off the whole back part—the pantry, the back stairs, the kitchen, the

“But I know that he has a gun. And from the way he is acting—”

She was not going to divorce him, and he had no grounds for divorcing

Daybreak was a comfort. The birds. A rooster crowing. It meant that time existed. At night everything stood still. The milkman, clinking his bottles. People went about