Clarice-lispector Quote by Clarice Lispector
““She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark. Maybe she was thirsty, but there was no water nearby. And above all the suffocating certainty that if a man were to embrace her at that moment she would feel not a soft sweetness in her nerves, but lime juice stinging them, her body like wood near fire, warped, crackling, dry.””
![“[T]his expressed only a little of what she felt. The rest was that she had never been loved before. She had believed it, but this was different; this was the hot wind of the desert, at the approach of which the others dropped dead, like mere sweet airs of the garden. It wrapped her about; it…” quote by Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb5/henry-james-417_quote_t-his-expressed-only-a-little-of-what-sh_1186713.jpg)
