Something wrong

Category: Books,Citations  |  January 8, 2011, 2:02 pm ,

From The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen:

Denise was a little worried by the degree of her revulsion. She didn’t understand what made her so very mean. She was unhappy to be so mean. There seemed to be something wrong with the way she thought about herself and other people [...] Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.

For a few minutes, the orange flotation device was the only object he had. It was his last object and so, instinctively, he loved it and pulled it close. Then they hauled him out of the water and dried him off and wrapped him up. They treated him like a child, and he reconsidered the wisdom of surviving.