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“I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.”
― The Woman in Black
― The Woman in Black
“There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.”
― The Woman in Black
― The Woman in Black
“I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an inextricable part of my past, but I had hoped never to have to recollect it, consciously, and in full, ever again. Like an old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now and again, but less and less often, less and less painfully, as the years went on and my happiness, sanity and equilibrium were assured. Of late, it had been like the outermost ripple on a pool, merely the faint memory of a memory.”
― The Woman in Black
― The Woman in Black
“A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.”
― The Woman in Black
― The Woman in Black
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