Yamamoto Quote--The High-Heeled Shoes

This is a quote by Hisaye Yamamoto from "The High-Heeled Shoes: A Memoir" (1948). The quote reads, "...that this bleakness, multiplied infinite times (see almost any daily paper), was a great, dark sickness on the earth that no amount of pansies, pinks, or amaryllis, thriving joyously in what garden, however well-ordered and pointed to with pride, could ever begin to assuage."