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“I’m sorry, people said, and then they had cleared their conscience, and Ellwood was left with the memories.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“I wept for joy because I could escape, and for sorrow I must leave alone.”
― Isola
― Isola
“Ellwood knew there was a quotation for this particular, painful speechlessness, but it did not come to him. All his words were gone. There was something surging gloriously in his chest, and he had no way to express it.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“It had been hopeless to love Ellwood because Ellwood did not love him back, and now it was hopeless even though he did.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
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