A Quote...

This is simply too good not to share:

She'd never imagined it like this- when she'd thought of someone (a woman like herself) losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

The Hours- Michael Cunningham