Julia

“The years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Both of us wore signet rings on our little fingers.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

“Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“These moments seem so long, the lightly waiting as, before falling asleep, you have to invite a dream to come.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline