Monday, November 16, 2015

Commonplace Book

'Silence is commonly the slow poison used by those who mean to murder love. There is nothing violent about it; no shock is given; Hope is not abruptly strangled, but merely dreams of evil, and fights with gradually stifling shadows. When the last convulsions come they are not terrific; the frame has been weakened for dissolution; love dies like natural decay...'

from Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith (Chapter XXII)

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