However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry,
I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to
smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such
possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't
be harmed - that I pulled away. I went to the other side of the room.
I sat staring at the wall. I thought about torture and gratuituos
physical pain. How could it be possible to do such things when there'd
be certain looks that would cry out to you from the human depths,
making you feel so much pity you could weep for a year?
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia, 1990
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