"Night and Day" Quotes
A woman navigates the complexities of love and identity in early 20th century London.
classics | 496 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed in any longer.
She felt that she had been through a spiritual experience, and that she must think about it quietly.
She wanted to be alone to think about it.
She had found herself in possession of a self which was drowned beneath the tumultuous surface, yet intact, which swung, like a drowned body, perpetually in the same spot.
She could not help thinking that the sight of him was unbearably pathetic.
She had an impulse to help him.
She felt the need of some one she loved.
She had a sense of being, in her person, insignificant, confused, and easily forgotten.
She felt like a child; she felt like a criminal; she felt like a mad woman; but she also felt herself infinitely important.
She refused to believe that he had ever seen her before.
