Aileen

“[...] j'étais devant une banquette de tramway et tous ces voyageurs anonymes épiaient le nouvel arrivant pour en apercevoir les ridicules”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger • La Peste • La Chute • Le Premier Homme

“The fantasy never got beyond that - I didn't let it - and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was lore struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was now uncommunicable for ever”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition

“But Maxim's grandmother, sitting there in her shawl with her poor blind eyes, what did she feel, what was she thi,king? Did she know that Beatrice wa yawning and glancing at her watch? Did she guess that we had come to visit her because we felt it right, it was a duty, so that when she got home afterwards Beatric would be able to say, 'Well, that clears my conscience for three months'?”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca