“Their eyes met for a moment. And the glance that flickered between them had been a wordless message of understanding, the affirmation… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“So this was how he lived now, getting jittery because a bus pulled up near. Well, he was not going on like… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her.… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“That was during the time of her lost happiness, when his love had built round her a protective wall, which for a… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“He drank a good deal at times. But the alcohol did not seem to affect him. His stony expression never changed. But… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“For an immeasurable period of time, hours, days, weeks, it seemed, Celia had been struggling against tides of anguish, sinking deeper and… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Night is the worst time, when her vitality sinks to its lowest ebb and she's frightened of everything. Unable to read or… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“There is, I believe, a kind of telepathy between the condemned: a sort of intuitive recognition which can even make itself felt through the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Their eyes met for a moment. And the glance that flickered between them had been a wordless message of understanding, the affirmation of a… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the world into… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.” — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“In a polished surface of metal I happen to notice my reflected face; it wears a pale, beaten lonely look, eyes looking out at… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when all the… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
