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very dreadfully nervous I had been—and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
“Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“We will never go back there. We will never again be friends,’ he said to Mama, Leah, and me. And I understood. You cannot go back once you learn the truth about people’s feelings.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
“Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“I liked to watch a play with Lena; everything was wonderful to her, and everything was true. It was like going to revival meetings with someone who was always being converted.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“As I sat down to my book at last, my old dream about Lena coming across the harvest-field in her short skirt seemed to me like the memory of an actual experience. It floated before me on the page like a picture, and underneath it stood the mournful line: ‘Optima dies ... prima fugit.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
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