“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“The fragile teacups, the brittle relics, the frail upholstery and shattery glass: this was a world of little things and little ways, their delicacy presupposing their protection.”
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 304.
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