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“She recalled his words, his looks. How few and meager they had been for her hungry heart!”

everybody has to explode.

gonna let love return to some far off yearning

Edna sobbing while Mademoiselle Reisz plays the song Robert asked Mme to play for her while she reads his letter. oh wow.

“‘Do you know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert—since early this morning?’ she said at parting.
‘All but the hundred years when you were sleeping. Good-night.’
He pressed her hand and went away in the direction of the beach.”

I don't know why this is making me so emotional. Well, maybe I do. That feeling of being lost, waking up, and realizing you aren't where you thought you were, and aren't where you want to be. I also find myself swimming as far as I can out into the ocean, hoping no one will follow—that moment of serenity in the sea. I'm also deeply moved by the quiet intimacy of Edna and Robert. A soft love filled with devotion.

is this gay. well i have a tendency to read every friendship in classic lit as gay. however “…she broke off, turning her quick eyes upon Madame Ratignolle and leaning forward a little so as to bring her face quite close to that of her companion.”