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.
“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
“I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall. I”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man’s experience is.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“and I had to look hard to see her face, which I meant always to carry with me; the closest, realest face, under all the shadows of women’s faces, at the very bottom of my memory.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
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