Michael Chabon: "Tidak ada yang pernah terjadi padanya, bukan penembak...

"Tidak ada yang pernah terjadi padanya, bukan penembakan Oyster, atau kedaluwarsa John Wesley Shannenhouse yang bergumam, atau kematian ayahnya, atau pengasingan ibu dan kakeknya, bahkan tidak tenggelamnya saudara lelakinya yang tercinta, yang pernah terjadi. Hatinya hancur sangat parah seperti realisasi, ketika dia setengah jalan menuju lubang palka stasiun Jerman, bahwa dia mengangkut mayat di belakangnya."

--- Michael Chabon

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him