Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories Quotes

“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However, it required merely some slight attention on his part to restore all her apprehensions - for these extremes of feeling only existed within the compass of her love."

"In One's Own House”
― Shirley Hazzard, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories

“The warm afternoon, the garden, the tray of empty glasses on the grass, succeeded in conveying foreboding and dissatisfaction; even the roses seemed to threaten violence, brimming over their plots of earth or arrested, scarlet, on the white wall of the house.

A Place in the Country”
― Shirley Hazzard, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories

“She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it."

"A Place in the Country”
― Shirley Hazzard, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories