More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
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Zum Autor"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"
"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations."
"[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."
"If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys."
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."