“We have never interfered with each other, and strangely enough, never been jealous of each other. And now, in our advancing years, we love each other more deeply than ever. And also more agonizingly; since we see the inevitable end. it is not nice to know that one of us must die before the other.” ~Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West – death
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