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"it was a sound of rage and weeping which filled the grave, rage and weeping from time set free, but bound now in eternity; rage that had no language, weeping with no voice, which yet spoke now of boundless melancholy, of the bitterest patience, and the longest night; of the deepest water, the strongest chains, the most cruel lash (...).
The darkness hummed with murder."

"his mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest men's descent, throwing up now and again, for the naked eye to wonder at, treasure and debris long forgotten on the bottom- bones and jewels, fantastic shells, jelly that once had been flesh, pearls that had once been eyes. And he was at the mercy of the sea, hanging there with darkness all around him."

"he had shouted into silence and only silence answered- and yet, when he cried, his cry had caused a ringing to the outermost limits of the earth. This ringing, his lone cry rolling through creation, frightening the sleeping fish and fowl, awakening echoes everywhere, river and valley, and mountain wall, caused in him a fear so great that he lay for a moment silent and trembling"

Che bellezza il modo in cui vengono descritte le emozioni e le vite dei personaggi. Sono tutti talmente caratterizzati che pare di conoscerli già. Gabriel e Frank mi fanno venire una rabbia oscena. James ti prego ho bisogno di una qualche forma di giustizia per Florence e per tutte le altre donne di questo libro.