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Quotation from Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
“The curving leaves seemed to be hiding something; the blind stem cut into the air as if no wind could ever shake it.”
Bliss and Other Stories, Prelude, section 6 (Project Gutenberg text)
Kezia and her mother look at the aloe, the story's central image, which Linda says flowers once every hundred years.
Citation: "The curving leaves seemed to be hiding something; the blind stem cut into the air as if no wind could ever shake it." — Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories, Prelude, section 6 (Project Gutenberg text). (id bliss-and-other-stories-q2)
Portrait: Mansfield 1917 cropped, Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Public domain.
