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What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Edith Wharton
Compassion, Silence, Darkness
Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.