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She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the sun. - VW

And both of them were quite wrong. What she liked was simply life. - VW

When you know that you know something about yourself, but you didn't know it then. -JD

Was there anyone's life span a point in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
-Joan Didion, RUN RIVER

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. -VW

She shut the door. -VW

There above them it hung, that moon. -VW

Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, let's fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; th wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.
-VW

By artificial light the green shone, but lost its colour now in the sun. -VW

"Men must not cut down trees. There is a God."
-Virginia Woolf

We all remember what we need to remember.
-Joan Didion

Apparently.
I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
-JD

After a whole there were no more frosts at night and the wild carrot came out along all the roads and every night ended badly. -JD

Charlotte tried to focus on the tight pink balls of peony blossom..-JD

Her skin burned in the wind and in the odd glare off the opaque clouded sea and after the first week she did not go outside.

Twice a year the sun is exactly vertical, and nothing casts a shadow.

She did not have a bag, she did not have an aspirin, she did not have a toothbrush.



-JD

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed. -JD

I think I have never known anyone who led quite so unexamined life. -JD

"Don't let me keep you. Somebody who loves you I'd dying, your only child is lost, I'm asking for one more favor, and you've got a lunch date."
-JD

Her mind was empty of grudges and hurts and family malice. Her energies were simple and physical and in the summertime her blond hair had the cast of pale verdigris from the chlorine in the swimming pools. - JD

Give me the molecular structure of the protein which defined Charlotte Douglas.

In fact Charlotte Douglas just went to the airport.

The absence of banyan trees at the American Embassy reminded Charlotte Douglas of this story.
-JD