The View Quotes

“She put her arms round him and kissed him. The kiss remained always with him, an agony in the mind: for then the two of them at last met and recognised one another. Later he supposed that this was indeed a moment's perfect happiness for him; but at the time the thought did not occur. Everything but the sea was dark and quiet and timeless. Thought and feeling had stopped and they were immortal. The moment was immortal.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries