Camilla

“And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“I announce adhesiveness-I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd;
I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried