“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”
“She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He opened his heart with gladness.”
“She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.”
“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”
“His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life. ”
“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”