The Old Man and the Sea

Της προτείνει γάμο με ό,τι ξέρει: έναν κατάλογο με πράγματα για το σπίτι.

Μιὰ μέρα, ρόζα, πρέπει νὰ μὲ παντρευτεῖς. ῞Ενας ψαρὰς εἶμαι, τὸ ξέρω. ᾽αλλὰ θὰ ξεπληρώσω τὶς δόσεις ποὺ χρωστᾶς γιὰ τὴν τηλεόραση. θὰ σοῦ πάρω ἴσως κι ἕνα τζίπ. θὰ σοῦ πάρω κι ἕνα ντουλάπι γιὰ τὰ ροῦχα σου. θὰ σοῦ ϕέρνω ὅσα μοσχολέμονα τραβάει ἡ ψυχή σου. ῾η ρόζα κοιτάζει τὰ ἡλιοκαμένα πόδια του, τὰ στραπατσαρισμένα πλαστικά του πέδιλα, τὰ χοντρά του δάχτυλα. ᾽απ ᾽τὸ μεγάλο δάχτυλο τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ του ποδιοῦ λείπει τὸ νύχι.

Πιο Πέρα από τη Θάλασσα · Πολ Λιντς

To be five years old and understand that nobody is coming.

The child was alone in a wilderness of grassy steppes and scattered forests. Glaciers spanned the continent on the north, pushing their cold before them. Untold numbers of grazing animals, and the carnivores that preyed on them, roamed the vast prairies, but people were few. She had nowhere to go and she had no one who would come and look for her. She was alone.

The Clan of the Cave Bear · Jean M. Auel

Όταν η γη χαράζει τον χάρτη της σε ένα πρόσωπο

Gumsto was typical of his clan, four feet ten inches high, yellowish brown in color, thin and extremely wrinkled. Indeed, there were few areas of his body that did not contain deep indentations, and sometimes within a square inch twelve lines would run up and down, with eight or nine crisscrossing them. His face looked like the map of a very old watershed, marked by the trails of a thousand animals, and when he smiled, showing small white teeth, these wrinkles cut deeper into his countenance, making him look as if he were well past ninety. He was forty-three and his wrinkles had been with him since the age of twenty-two; they were the mark of his people.

The Covenant · James Michener