“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“Among the tortures and devestations of life is this
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
― The Waves
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
― The Waves
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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