The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus

And, after another silence, she murmured something about my being “a queer fellow.” “And I daresay that’s why I love you,” she added. “But maybe that’s why one day I’ll come to hate you.” To which I had nothing to say, so I said nothing.

I knew I’d shattered the balance of the day, the spacious calm of this beach on which I had been happy.