I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
I was longing for night and darkness and the time when the moonflowers open.
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. Like the swaggering pirates, let's make the most and best and worst of what we have. Give not one-third but everything. All-all-all. Keep nothing back...
As for her, I'd forgotten for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true-all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.
(But it is lost, that secret, and those who know it cannot tell it.)
Not lost. I had found it in a hidden place and I'd keep it, hold it fast. As I'd hold her.
Tim: The people you work with are people you were just thrown together with. I mean, you don't know them-it wasn't your choice-and yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends and your family. But probably all you've got in common is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in who you have a connection with... yeah. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life and it meant a lot. But if I'm really being honest, I never really thought it would have a happy ending.
I don't know what a happy ending is. Life isn't about endings, is it? It's a series of moments, and um, it's like if you turned the camera off, it's not an ending, is it? I'm still here, my life's not over. Come back here in ten years. See how I'm doing then, you know. I could be married with kids. You don't know.
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- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.
Like the swaggering pirates, let's make the most and best and worst of what we have. Give not one-third but everything. All-all-all. Keep nothing back...
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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(But it is lost, that secret, and those who know it cannot tell it.)
Not lost. I had found it in a hidden place and I'd keep it, hold it fast. As I'd hold her.
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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Sing, Antoinette. I can hear you now.
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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I don't know what a happy ending is. Life isn't about endings, is it? It's a series of moments, and um, it's like if you turned the camera off, it's not an ending, is it? I'm still here, my life's not over. Come back here in ten years. See how I'm doing then, you know. I could be married with kids. You don't know.
Life just goes on...
- The Office (UK)
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