The Lime Twig Quotes

“She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require that: she only wanted a little comfort, a bit of charity; with the awfulness, the unknowable, removed.”
― John Hawkes, The Lime Twig

“The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness.”
― John Hawkes, The Lime Twig