Julia
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“She would remember for ever. It even gave her a pang to see her cousin Laurie throw away the wisps of tissue paper he pulled from the fastenings of his new gloves. She would like to have kept those wisps as a keepsake, as a remembrance.”
― The Garden Party and Other Stories
― The Garden Party and Other Stories
“Both of us wore signet rings on our little fingers.”
― Sweet Days of Discipline
― Sweet Days of Discipline
“We, perhaps, were still innocent. And perhaps innocence has something crude, pedantic and affected about it, as if we were all dressed in plus fours and long socks.”
― Sweet Days of Discipline
― 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.”
― The Garden Party and Other Stories
― The Garden Party and Other Stories
“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling, disabled down, down to the water.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
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