APS TOGETHER
Day 13 (November 30) Part II, Chapter II
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greenep. 146-159
November 30, 2024 by Yiyun Li
The garage boy “did go in for big figures.” Father Herrera “has the prudent soul of a secretary.” The robber of the self-service “was doomed to failure.” One really gets attached to these characters, with that sinking feeling that the book is going to run out of pages soon.
“In your company, Sancho, I think more freely than when I am alone.”
“I looked at your damn purple socks and your bib, and your new shoes which we had bought in León, and I remembered suddenly the way you had blown up the balloon.”
“They seem insufficient reasons.”
“They were sufficient reasons for me.”
If these words are not the best words about the best friendship, I don’t know what other words there are.
“I don’t want our travels to end. Not before death, Sancho.”
And I don’t want the book to end, either.
