# Quote — J. M. Coetzee, Foe

> My thoughts ran to Friday… Had I not been there to restrain him, would he in his hunger have eaten the babe? I told myself I did him wrong to think of him as a cannibal or worse, a devourer of the dead. But Cruso had planted the seed in my mind, and now I could not look on Friday’s lips without calling to mind what mean must once have passed them.

- Author: [J. M. Coetzee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee.md)
- Book: [Foe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe.md)
- Page: 106
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#Foe_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/my-thoughts-ran

## More from this book

> But this is not a place of words. Each syllable, as it comes out, is caught and filled with water and diffused. This is a place where bodies have their own signs. It is the home of Friday.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/but-this-is-not.md)

> Nothing I have forgotten is worth the remembering.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/nothing-i-have.md)

> Return to me the substance I have lost, Mr. Foe. That is my entreaty.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/return-to-me-the.md)