scarr’s Reviews > Black Silk > Status Update

hahaha I am still a sicko!! this is my 9th read!

"The hint of a perfect, unselfconscious candor affected Graham, the way great beauty suddenly moves something in one's chest; the way profound horror quakes the soul."

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There might not be a soul alive who cared or understood, but he knew—at least for a few moments in late evening on a warm summer night—and understood himself.

She had, like Henry, the ability to rise above such situations. Hers, like Henry’s, was the watchful reticence of someone unwillingly involved in something ugly—though she did what Henry would not do. She wrapped herself in the mantle of her irrefutable integrity and saved him.”

Graham Wessit THEOLOGIAN

It was the nicest, strangest sound. Her laughter, unvocalized, had a soft, shudderlike quality. She laughed with her mouth closed, her smile slightly crooked, this appealingly lopsided expression faintly narrowing one eye . . . "

I realize this is dramatic but I am undone! Ivory loves describing laughter (Bliss, Sleeping Beauty, etc.) and these observations make me long for when her characters laugh!