Connor Brown’s Reviews > Light in August > Status Update

"...the music has a still quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music." (p. 347)

"'I'm not ready to pray yet,' she said aloud, quietly, rigid, soundless, her eyes wide open, while the moon poured into the window, filling the room with something cold and irrevocable and wild with regret. 'Don't make me have to pray yet. Dear God, let me damned a little longer, a little while.'" (p. 250)