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" Whenever she smiled at me Heaven blew in "

"but sometimes , unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping ; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid , so heartsick and empty , that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead "