In The Country Of Last Things Quotes
"One by one they disappear and never come back."
"When you live in the city, you learn to take nothing for granted."
"The only thing that counts is staying on your feet."
"Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it."
"In spite of the lapses, I keep myself going."
"The streets of the city are everywhere, and no two streets are the same."
"No matter how much they are able to find, it will never be enough."
"Shortages are frequent, and a food that has given you pleasure one day will more than likely be gone the next."
"The stomach is a bottomless pit, a hole as big as the world."
"Everything falls apart, but not every part of every thing, at least not at the same time."
"The harder you work, the weaker you become; the weaker you are, the more draining the work."
"Life as we know it has ended, and yet no one is able to grasp what has taken its place."
"In order to live, you must make yourself die."
"I can safely report that the sky here is the same sky as the one above you."
"It takes so much out of you, there is no time left to think of doing anything else."
"It was a miracle that you happened to be there."
"Scarcity bends your mind toward novel solutions."
"No musings; no sadness or happiness; no anything but the street, all empty inside."
"Without me, they would not have lasted ten days."
"You must come back and visit me sometime, Anna. I want to know how everything turns out."
"Every Jew, he said, believes that he belongs to the last generation of Jews."
"The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going to kill him."
"It's difficult not to expect anything but the worst."
"I'm not going to give up hope. Not until I know for sure."
"Looking back on it now, I still believe that things could have worked out for us."
"The fact that I made an innocent mistake does not lessen the pain of it."
"By creating a child together, we had made it possible for a new world to begin."
"I am not being dramatic when I say this. I destroyed everything with my own stupidity."
"You have beautiful feet, Anna. The daintiest little twin-kletoes ever invented."
"My baby was going to live. I know that my baby was going to live."
"The world was just as it had always been. Their bellies were full now, but nothing else had been altered in the least."
"You was dead, and then you come back to life."
"Victoria has never responded to anyone the way she has to you. She’s positively smitten."
"To want nothing, I kept saying to myself, to have nothing, to be nothing."
"Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies."
"We all speak our own language of ghosts, I'm afraid."
"Le chapeau influence le cerveau. Si on protège la tête, la pensée n’est plus bête."
"The selfishness of burial in this day and age—imagine the gall of it."
"You shouldn’t be throwing it away. That dirt belongs to grandpa."
"Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say."
"It’s like calling out into the blankness, like screaming into a vast and terrible blankness."
"The important thing is that you stay where you are, that you continue to be there for me in my mind."
"We’ve kept ourselves warm by dismantling portions of the house and throwing the pieces into the furnace."
"The only thing I ask for now is the chance to live one more day."