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“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”

“The gloom was like a living thing; it smothered her with murky kisses.”

“…make him confess himself. And maybe we won’t tear your soul apart.”

“…despair had taught her the fine art of squeezing blood from stones.”

“Somewhere a bell was ringing…”

“If nothing was worth living for it followed, didn’t it, that there was nothing worth dying for either.”

“The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses.”