Thought I'd share

As I can't seem to piece a coherent blog post together, I'm just going to put up a passage from a novel I'm currently reading - I often find these bits of great imagery that impact upon me and try to make a mental note to share... so here's one I remembered to pass on to you:

Staring at herself for long stretches of time, she was occasionally upset at the sight of her mother's features in her face. She would stare all the more doggedly at her image in an attempt to wish them away and keep only what was hers alone. Each time she succeeded was a time of intoxication: her soul would rise to the surface of her body like a crew charging up from the bowels of a ship, spreading out over the deck, waving at the sky and singing in jubilation.

- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being