Sarah Waters Quotes

Helen Opened Her Eyes And Gazed Into The Luminous Blue Of The Sky. Was It Crazy, She Wondered, To Be As Grateful As She Felt Now, For Moments Like This, In A World That Had Atomic Bombs In It - And Concentration Camps, And Gas Chambers? People Were Still Tearing Each Other Into Pieces. There Was Still Murder, Starvation, Unrest, In Poland, Palestine, India - God Knew Where Else. Britain Itself Was Sliding Into Bankruptcy And Decay. Was It A Kind Of Idiocy Or Selfishness, To Want To Be Able To Give Yourself Over To The Trifles: To The Parp Of The Regent's Park Band; To The Sun On Your Face, The Prickle Of Grass Beneath Your Heels, The Movement Of Cloudy Beer In Your Veins, The Secret Closeness Of Your Lover? Or Were Those Trifles All You Had? Oughtn't You, Precisely, To Preserve Them? To Make Little Crystal Drops Of Them, That You Could Keep, Like Charms On A Bracelet, To Tell Against Danger When Next It Came?

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