“She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.”
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“It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams.”
“Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.”
“Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk.”