Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.