she covered her eyes....

"…she covered her eyes with her hands and cried, 
tears seeped between her fingers and collected in the little webs,
 she cried and cried and cried, 
there weren’t any napkins nearby so i ripped the page from the book— ‘i don’t speak. i’m sorry.’ —and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara…"

thomas schell; extremely loud & incredibly close, jonathan safran foer
source:tim walker, atelier versace, voque italia, via +