Wes’s Life

I started read­ing 1984 by George Orwell a few days ago and I am about halfway through and I have found some quotes worth keep­ing.

“Then for three dread­ful days she did not appear at all. His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbear­able sen­si­tiv­ity, a sort of trans­parency, which made every move­ment, ever sound, every con­tact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in his sleep he could not alto­gether escape her image.”

“If there was any relief, it was in his work, in which he could some­times forget him­self for ten min­utes at a stretch.”

“It could not have been ten sec­onds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together.”