# Quote — Hubert Selby Jr., The Room

> A dark yet shallow sleep. A submission to exhaustion. A loss of consciousness and an avoidance of light, Yet not deep enough to avoid the turbulence on the surface while deep enough to feel the pressure from the bottom. Whatever or whoever he was sought to find the finite area where all pressures are equal and constant. To find that small pocket of weightlessness where no pressure is felt, where there is no tugging in opposite directions, no straining for a painless balance, where all of him was suspended and cushioned between the 2 crushing and yanking pressures where no pressures existed. Where no light existed. Where no time existed. Where no need or desire existed. Where there existed no blackness. There, where there existed nothing, not even a void.

- Author: [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr.md)
- Book: [The Room](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/a-dark-yet

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> He replaced the gray of the walls with a darker shade by closing his eyes. It felt good to shut out some of the light. Not all, but just some. Just enough so there was a gray without images or threatening corners. Not the blackness that gives birth to those sudden flashes of stinging light that slashes your eyes, or the velvety darkness that thickens and become animated and flows and somehow moves around and over you. Just a soothing gray. Nothing to see.

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> I guess I had fun. But not enough to stay.

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