Marathe and Kate at Ryle's (p. 774)
‘Can I ask you how it is being in that thing?’ ‘Thing?’ ‘You know. Don’t play dumb and embarrass me.’ ‘A wheelchair is a thing which: you prefer it or do not prefer, it is no distance. Difference. You are in the chair even if you do not prefer it. So it is better to prefer, no?’
Context
The scene's opening lines: drunk, bruised Kate Gompert asks the wheelchaired stranger at Ryle's the question polite America never asks, and gets Marathe's entire ethics in a chair-sized aphorism — the chair is a fact, so choose to prefer it. The whole choice-vs.-fate argument of the next eight pages is already here, mounted on the fauteuil. (The mid-sentence self-correction "it is no distance. Difference." is in the text — Marathe's L2 English.)