Jun 30, 2009 12:32
''I saw her kiss him,' said Susan. 'I looked between the leaves and saw her. She danced in flecked diamonds light as dust. And I am squat, Bernard, I am short. I have eyes that look close to the ground and see insects in the grass. The yellow warmth in my side turned to stone when I saw Jinny kiss Louis. I shall eat grass and die in a ditch in the brown water where dead leaves have rotted.''
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''But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, 'we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.''
- The Waves, Virginia Woolf
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