Claire

“Because he was so critical, so severe, so suspicious of her, she became secretive and lying. She would never say what she really thought. She was afraid of him.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“The whole world is based on fear, even behind the jealousy of the day before lay dear. Fear of being alone, fear of being abandoned, fear of life, fear of being trapped in tragedy, fear of the animal in us, fear of one's hatred, of committing a crime, fear of cancer, of syphilis, of starvation.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

“She had forced the hourglass of pain to turn. They had pursued each other. They had tried to possess each other. They had been slaves of a pattern, and not of love.”
― Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice