John Cheever Quote

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings (ed. 2009)

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her...

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her...

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her...

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her...