Three Summers
Margarita Liberaki
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord.”
“The fire lasted for three days and three nights. Now the mountain looks like a wounded beast baring its wounds to the sun.”
“When I think of my father's house it's the mixed-up smell of medicine and wine in the street that I remember, and also the idea of women giving birth as they listen to people singing in the taverna and of people singing as they listen to women screaming.”
“She screamed. Then she became calm like the river that flows through the same river bed for centuries.”
“Later at night in bed when she drowned him in kisses, his heart wouldn't warm up; the loneliness had spread inside him when the shade had fallen in the ravine.”
“I've got to go or the water will overflow.”
“I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone asks. "No," I answer. "I'm perfectly happy.”
“He was so sturdy, like a piece of well-chiseled stone. His nose, his chin, his forehead were composed in straight lines, his shoulders and soul, too. Not a single curve. Whereas her body was all round, with sweet, smooth curves and rises, gentle like the earth itself, longing to partake of the other.”
“He had taken her warmth and shut it up inside himself.”
“But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood.”
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Book Keywords:
heat, euphoria, dusk, body, happiness
