Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong Quotes
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.
Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.