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

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

Edith Wharton

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