Nadine’s Reviews > In the Memorial Room: A Novel > Status Update

... like a cascade of unceasing tears.

Love the detail in this description:
... she spoke slowly, almost mechanically, with a swaying motion of her body as if she within her some instrument for winding her words, in sentence-containers, up from a great depth where they had fallen or been banished; sometimes one felt as if they were extracted with great difficulty, as if she herself had gone away down into the rock to hack them out and shake them clean ...

Great line:
... it had ‘dropped’ like an old womb

Really like this bit:

... and I travelled by train, not by Le Train Bleu, for I must
Tell you, as it is important in my story, that I am the kind of person who is inclined to miss the best trains, to find the worst rooms in hotels, the surliest waiters in restaurants ...

... for I am a dull personality, almost humdrum, a plodder from day to day with only an occasional glimpse of light ...

Love this, have a sneaky feeling maybe this was her opinion of herself rather than that of the character.