Exiles

“While you have a thing it can be taken from you.”

“No, Brigid, that time comes only once in a lifetime. The rest of life is good for nothing except to remember that time.”

“The rain falling. Summer rain on the earth. Night rain. The darkness and warmth and flood of passion. Tonight the earth is loved—loved and possessed.”

“It is an act of union between man and woman. Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?”