Depression — that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction — had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.


Charlotte Gray (1998)

Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Depression — that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction — had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life ...

Depression — that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction — had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life ...

Depression — that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction — had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life ...

Depression — that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction — had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life ...