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“You’re an artist, Mel. You can’t expect to be a success at the same time.”
“At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.”
“It’s extraordinary how frightened one can be,” said Phrynne, “even when one is not directly menaced. It must prove that we all belong to one another, or whatever it is, after all.”
“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.”
She saw herself, her real self, for ever suspended in blackness, howling in the lonely dark, miserable and unheard; while her other, outer self went smiling through an endless purposeless routine of love for and compliance with a family and a community of friends which, however excellent, were exceedingly unlike her, in some way that she did not fully understand.
