She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight …

Cormac McCarthy
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She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.136, Pan Macmillan
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