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“Yellow is the true color of spring, not green; the new grass, the clouds, the misty, sunny air, the sticky buds like little feathers on the trees, all are mixed with yellow tone, with the haze of sun and earth and water. Green is for summer; blue, for fall.”
― Portrait of Jennie
― Portrait of Jennie
“she was still in love and didn’t know what to do with all this love of hers. There was so much of it, and it was so messy: leaking, spilling, tumbling out of her, like stuffing falling out of an old rag doll that was coming apart at the seams.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
“No matter
how hard you train them,
how deliberately you plan,
or how much support you send their way;
to lose Marines
is to watch as fires flicker out
beneath a torrent of rain.”
― War, What Comes After
how hard you train them,
how deliberately you plan,
or how much support you send their way;
to lose Marines
is to watch as fires flicker out
beneath a torrent of rain.”
― War, What Comes After
“when we are unhappy we feel the unhappiness of others more; feeling is not destroyed but concentrated. .”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: “Good morning! How do you do? I am quite well, thank God, and I am to have a new storey in May,” or, “How are you? I am being redecorated tomorrow;” or, “I was almost burnt down and had such a fright,” and so on. I have my favourites among them, some are dear friends; one of them intends to be treated by the architect this summer. I shall go every day on purpose to see that the operation is not a failure. God forbid!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
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