“I laughed. “Resi, darling—” I said, “you have a full life ahead of you.” “I have a full life behind me—” she said, “all in those few sweet hours with you.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“We really haven’t talked anything over—” she said. “What is there to talk about?” I said. “Nothing you could say would make me love you more or less. Our love is too deep for words ever to touch it. It’s soul love.” She sighed. “How lovely that is—if it’s true.” She put her hands close together, but not touching. “Our souls in love.” “A love that can weather anything,” I said.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
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“vomiting the crying”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
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