I am so far behind this month!!! Too much traveling has taken up my time to read. I am only at 65%. In the first few chapters of the book, Therese uses words like prison, conviction, iron bars, cages, dungeon, chains, gluey. You certainly feel her loneliness and entrapment.
One of the things I noticed is the contrast between darkness and light. I particularly liked the following quote:
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The night was very black, in spite of the Christmas lights on some of the lampposts.
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But then she meets Carol who has "fiery" eyes. This sentence caught my attention: "The snow was no more than a film underfoot, like thin white wool drawn across the street and sidewalk." It contrasts with when she was walking with Richard: "dirty slippery stuff, neither snow nor ice."
Lots of references to sunlight such as the first morning she wakes up at Carol's house and the morning in the hotel at the beginning of their travels. Here are some example quotes:
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I feel I am in love with you, she had written, and it should be spring. I want the sun throbbing on my head like chords of music. I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
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There were no mornings anywhere like the mornings from this window. The round bed of grass beyond the driveway had darts of sunlight in it, like scattered gold needles. There were sparks of sun in the moist hedge leaves, and the sky was a fresh solid blue.
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