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Even when you think you can't bear it, you can bear it.

Lauren Groff

Arcadia

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Then she rose and stared out the open window at the garden in its cloak of fog, feeling the sun go down inside her.

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There is cut holly on the raw graves and the red berries are the only things that glow faintly in the mizzle, in the world at large, which has no more color in it. All will be gray, she thinks, the rest of her life gray. Gray soul, gray sky, gray earth of March, grayish whitish abbey.

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Marie wants to lie on the floor in this white warm room. To leave this prison of flesh in this miserable boggy stinking place, to rejoin her mother in death, to give up the ghost.

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Marie is caged into her fate by the isolation of those two years, only mitigated by busy Cecily; Marie would never want to live through that desert of her soul again.

Lauren Groff

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Perhaps the song of a bird in a chamber is more precious than the wild bird’s because the chamber itself makes it so. Perhaps the free air that gives the wild bird its better song in fact limits the reach of its prayer. So small, this understanding. So remarkably tiny. Still, it might be enough to live for.

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Her love for Eleanor she buries deep within her, even though it is still alive, and it will flare up in her life and have to be banked again and again; it will morph to hatred then flare into longing...

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She is reprimanded for making herself scarce. She apologizes in writing, for she is less uncouth in writing, more like the self she yearns to become.

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She longs to be among the greats of the generations before. Marie might have discovered others like herself in that era. She would not have felt so alone.

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