Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery (2001)

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And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

Paula Fox

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Paula Fox

She spoke English with a foreigner's extreme caution, as though entering an unexplored forest full of dangers.

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Now and then I asked a question. Daddy would preface his answer with the assertion, 'I hear what you're saying beneath that!' It gratified me with its implication that there was a deeper meaning to my words than even I understood. If only I could discover what I really meant!

Paula Fox