“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“At a very early period she had apprehended the instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.”
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“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [...].”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
Alanna’s 2025 Year in Books
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