

“She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles

“I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening

“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening

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