Halls of the Dark Muse

From For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

She said nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I loved someone it would take it all away.


Coincidently enough shortly before this book was chosen as a litnet group read my boyfriend and I ended up in a discussion about it. We were talking about books and authors in general and Hemingway came up, and I in general love Hemingway and he told me he enjoyed this book and it is one I have not yet read.

In many ways this quote does make me think about our own relationship and things we have been through.

I can really understand why he enjoyed this book, and knowing of his own experiences with war and having that personal connection, I really feel this book on a deeper level.