Quote from: Love Topic

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone.


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Author Bio


  • NameGeorge Saunders
  • DescriptionAmerican short story writer
  • BornDecember 2, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Essayist; Teacher
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Folio Prize