She thought of the recurrent waves of pain.... : Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“ She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer. ”

Vladimir Nabokov
  • From : Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories‏
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