Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady Quotes
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.
