“Among the tortures and devestations of life is this
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
― The Waves
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
― The Waves
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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