There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this
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“Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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