
“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The God of Small Things
“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.”
Source: When She Hollers
Source: Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“And she who, like a swan,
Has chanted out her last and dying song,
Lies, loved by him.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1444–1446 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
Roman by Polanski (1984)
“The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 4
Context: The hostess is our modern Sibyl. She is a witch who lays her guests under a spell. In this house they think themselves happy; in that witty; in a third profound. It is all an illusion (which is nothing against it, for illusions are the most valuable and necessary of all things, and she who can create one is among the world's greatest benefactors), but as it is notorious that illusions are shattered by conflict with reality, so no real happiness, no real wit, no real profundity are tolerated where the illusion prevails.