She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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John Keats
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a...
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Colette
You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.
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J.a. Redmerski
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
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Kiera Cass
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
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Blaise Pascal
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