takatsukishiori: (shiori)
Sneer to the last, Devil. Do you think that I don't know? She thirsts for anyone -- not for me...

She'll loosen her black hair, and laugh and coax and flatter (a mad girl. She'll not care who she's loving). She'll moan and cry and give herself as no sane woman would -- or could. [...]

I tell you she loves no one, anyone. I could not touch her. Excepting as the hurricane will touch that tree -- and break it. You say I did? No. That was love's fierce play. Now I'll do it.

She'll not laugh in the sun again. She'll not dress up and smile at herself in that damnable looking-glass. So pleased, so satisfied.

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.


Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
takatsukishiori: (SKU: With no faces)
"When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why would they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"

— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

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