Oh Patricia
Dec. 18th, 2018 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered.
—Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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