Native Son Flight 1

"He was outside of his family now, over and beyond them; they were incapable of even thinking that he had done such a deed. And he had done something which even he had not thought possible." (105-106)

I picked this because it makes me empathize with his feelings. I understand how he feels. It's kind of the tingling numbness you feel after you did something you know is wrong and you don't know how to fix it. It's like when you wish you could just let everything fall away and curl up in a corner and let the world go on without you and let the consequences pass you by.

emphatically: adj. uttered with emphasis
conditioning: n. a qualification