“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”
― Scented Gardens for the Blind
― Scented Gardens for the Blind
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
― The Mandarins
― The Mandarins
“Clichés so often befall vain people.”
― Walks With Men
― Walks With Men
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