Kindle Notes & Highlights
The fact was that despite himself, without knowing why or how it had happened and very much against his better judgement, he had fallen hopelessly in love.
she had taken possession of him entirely from tip to toe, body and soul.
the demon in the flesh capable of hurling the most rational man in the world at the feet of a worthless harlot.
It seemed to him that the hook was like his own love and that if he were to tear it out he too would be gutted by a piece of curved wire hooked deep into his essential self at the end of a line held by Madeleine.
He felt in tune with the all-embracing poetry of the moment in which plants and all that surrounded him revealed themselves to his senses at this lovely restful and reflective time of day.
