“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“Have all beautiful things sad destinies?”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
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