It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear tim… - Wide Sargasso Sea

'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes? No?'
There are two beds, a big one for madame and a smaller one on the opposite side for monsieur. The wash-basin is shut off by a curtain. It is a large room, the smell of cheap hotels faint, almost imperceptible. The street outside is narrow, cobble-stoned, going sharply uphill and ending in flight of steps. What they call an impasse.
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

Funny how it's slipped away, Vienna. Nothing left but a few snapshots. (beginning of "Vienne")

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.