The Victorian Chaise Longue Quotes

“Time had been blotted out while he listened to the lark. That was what her mind said in the desolation, and in the instant while the Vicar stood waiting, she had recalled the story that ended with those words, the monk wandering out into the cloister garden to hear the lark, and returning to find that a hundred years had gone by. And I was perceiving the spring, she remembered. I was in ecstasy as I fell asleep, ecstasy one experiences perhaps once, twice, half a dozen time, when to be human is no longer a lonely terror but a glory, when time is blotted out by perfection. Ecstasy is timeless. Is that perhaps the clue? she said; is ecstasy existence in all time and none, and the return into time a random chance, one moment in time's duration as likely as another?”
― Marghanita Laski, The Victorian Chaise Longue

“...and at last there was nothing but darkness, and in the darkness the ecstasy, and after the ecstasy, death and life.”
― Marghanita Laski, The Victorian Chaise Longue