Julia

“Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“These moments seem so long, the lightly waiting as, before falling asleep, you have to invite a dream to come.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

“Her first ball! She was only at the beginning of everything. It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful very often – oh, yes – but mournful somehow. Solemn. And now it would never be like that again – it had opened dazzling bright.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“Stand still. I want to look at you. I haven’t seen you yet.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories