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The Evening of the Holiday QUOTES

The Evening of the Holiday QUOTES

1 " But she would not have slept for anything. Tilting her head she could see the red moon and the stars rising and lowering over the uneven road. The car rushed between rows of sloping pines whose trunks were barred with white paint, and past an army of advertisements for gasoline, Chianti, and men’s hats. Once in a while they passed through a village whose main and single street shone like a fair with a confusion of neon lights, and in whose unadorned cafés children, too late out of bed, slept on their mothers’ laps. As clearly as if it were day she could picture the symmetrical Tuscan landscape that extended on either side. She had made this journey from Florence a dozen times before without ever finding it too short, but tonight the numbered notices of decreasing kilometres seemed to be posted at every turn. She wanted to go on for ever - but wanted it intensely, as if it were a possibility - and wondered whether she had ever been as happy as this. "

― Shirley Hazzard , The Evening of the Holiday

2 " And the thread of her happiness was no stronger than the clasp of her fingers on his coat, no longer than this last mile of their journey. "

― Shirley Hazzard , The Evening of the Holiday