Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
Arthur GoldenI went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
Arthur GoldenMy feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, theyโd nearly drowned out everything else.
Arthur Golden