She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.
Amanda CoplinYou belong to the earth and the earth is hard.
Amanda Coplin...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.
Amanda CoplinA place to show her children: and you belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.
Amanda CoplinWhen he was a boy he was happy when the men arrived, and in a way wanted them to remain forever--but he was also anxious that they had arrived, that he was no longer alone. The sorrow came from those two feelings--the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude. That was what he had felt, he thought, and what to some extent he still felt.
Amanda CoplinHe regarded the world—objects right in front of his face—as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth he also moved in other realms. In certain seasons, in certain shades, memories alighted on him like sharp-taloned birds: a head turning in the foliage, lantern light flaring in a room.
Amanda CoplinThe night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand
Amanda CoplinAnd that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.
Amanda CoplinMots clés children death literature-quotes
She could strive for perfection only in certain, few things; beyond that, it was important only to be tidy.
Amanda CoplinMots clés priorities perfection tidiness
Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was beautiful and was something he valued, and made him who he was. He could not help but also long for that other life in which he lived with Della, even if she abused him.
Amanda CoplinMots clés life love resentment regret
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