The Blue Castle

“I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.”

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“Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.” Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.”

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“Valancy got up and dressed, with a deepening of that curious sense of freedom. When she had finished with her hair she opened the window and hurled the jar of potpourri over into the next lot. It smashed gloriously against the schoolgirl complexion on the old carriage-shop. “I’m sick of the fragrance of dead things,” said Valancy.”

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“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”

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“Poi... sei arrivata tu. Ho dovuto credere che tu mi amassi, che amassi veramente me, non i milioni di mio padre. Non c'era altro motivo per cui avresti voluto sposare un diavolo senza un penny e con i miei ipotetici precedenti. E io provavo pena per te. Oh, sì, non nego di averti sposata perché provavo pena per te. E poi... ho scoperto che eri la migliore, la più allegra e la più cara compagna che avessi mai avuto. Spiritosa, leale, dolce. Mi hai costretto a credere nuovamente nella vera amicizia e nel vero amore. Il mondo sembrava di nuovo bello perché c'eri tu, tesoro mio. Desideravo che continuasse così per sempre tra di noi. L'ho capito la notte in cui sono tornato a casa e ho visto per la prima volta la luce della mia casa che risplendeva sull'isola. E sapevo che tu eri lì ad aspettarmi. Dopo essere stato senza una casa per tutta la vita, era bello averne una. Tornare affamato a notte inoltrata e sapere che c'era un buon pasto e un fuoco accogliente - e che c'eri tu.”

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“One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man.”

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“It was amazing to be able to sit up half the night and look at the moon if you wanted to. To be late for meals if you wanted to....Dawdle over meals as long as you wanted to. Leave your crusts if you wanted to. Not come home at all for meals if you wanted to. Sit on a sun-warm rock and paddle your bare feet in the hot sand if you wanted to. Just sit and do nothing in the beautiful silence if you wanted to. In short, do any fool thing you wanted to whenever the notion took you. If that wasn't freedom, what was?”

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“She gives me meals that stick to my ribs. She don't forget to put salt in the porridge. She never slams doors, and when she has nothing to say, she don't talk. That's uncanny in a woman, you know, Mister.”

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“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”

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