“She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
"The Birthmark" from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”
— James Joyce, book The Dead
Source: The Dead
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