Yevgeny Zamyatin — We [421]

O raised her face from the pillow and said without opening her eyes, “Go away.” But she was crying, and the words came out as “gooway,” and for some reason this silly trifle cut deeply into me. — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 421

Note

The phonetic misspelling (‘gooway’) grounds a tragic emotional parting in a precise, devastatingly vulnerable human detail.