"You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes."
"I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels"
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Source: Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
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