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1. “With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him—it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.”
Henry James
Heartbreak Loss, Abyss Grasp, Emotional Despair, Quiet Day, Sudden Grief, Human Fragility
Quiet Day Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him—it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.”
Henry James Heartbreak Loss, Abyss Grasp, Emotional Despair, Quiet Day, Sudden Grief, Human Fragility
