She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
She was a dark, unenduring ...
Quotes from the same author
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
Never confuse activity with action.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
