Birdsong Quotes- Part 1 France 1910

"white lace blouse with a dark red stone at the throat"

"Her white hands seemed barely to touch the cutlery when they ate"

"it's obvious strength of charcter overpowered conventional prettiness"

"shaking her head as though in defiance of some unwanted feeling"

"this secret thing that promised new life and liberation should manifest itself in the colour of pain"

"For three years her loss coloured every moment of her day"

"became less concerned about her husband. She was frightened of Stephen"

"He was repelled by the water-gardens: their hectic abundance seemed to him close to the vegetable fertility of death"

"the sensation of desire seemed indistinguishable from an impulse towards death"

"even these would not outlast or rise above some forlorn, unspiritual end in the clinging earth"

"half smiling to himself, half in earnest"

"moving with one flock instinct"

"He thought of his life as a wood of confusion with two or three clear tracks on which he could orientate himself"

"He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead"

"His confidence was not checked by judgement; he followed where nothing more than instinct took him, and relied on some reflexive wariness to help"

"He felt pity for him. Then, in the intrests of preserving something for Isabelle and himself, he hardened his heart"

"You are going to hell!"

"we were being reduced to numbers, to ranks of nameless people who were not valued in the eyes of another individual"

"You seem so old to me"

"It was an existance he felt had been won by him but in some wider judgement would not be allowed"

"It had been hard to think of blood as the mark of new life, of hope"

"They never knew each other, never met, never considered any kinship or allegience they might have to each other or to the country they lived in, because such things existed only in time of war"

"so there is something that frightens you"

"In his affections she had moved from the object of fearful passion to someone whose well-being was his life's concern"

"He felt himself grow cold"