Madeleine Thien Quotes

After Surgery, He Told His Doctors That The Pain Was Exactly As It Was, But He Did Not Feel It As Greatly. "It's As If," He Had Said, A Cool Blandness In His Eyes, "the Pain Is Not Being Done To Me." One Day, Maybe In A Ten Years, Or Fifty Years, A Surgeon Will Be Able To Do This With Disturbing Precision, Destroy A Whirlpool Of Memory, An Entire System Of Feelings, But In The Meantime It's Like Taking A Hatchet To A Spider's Web.

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