The Zone Quotes

“The world in which I found myself was horrifying. In that world, people fought with sharpened rasp files, ate dogs, covered their faces with tattoos and sodomized goats. In that world, people killed for a package of tea.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

“The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life’s usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.”
― Sergei Dovlatov, The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story