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Damage

Hart, Josephine | Ivy, 1991

 

p. 125

The main figure, reflecting on his wife’s memories of her childhood home: “I had listened to all her dreaming memories with a politeness that should have worried me. A man in love does not listen to the tales of his beloved’s childhood with such detachment. Nor does he look on the house that sheltered her with so cool an eye.”