“But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.”
― Carol
― Carol
“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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