"I don't need to be human to know what it means to care."
A great novel is one that refuses to be reduced to a single meaning.
A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. Ours are different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, and the skin on his chest was so thin that you could see the ribs pressing out against it.
We are all prisoners of our own lives, but some are freer than others.