She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Few of the men she saw seemed worth an expenditure of imagination, and it made her smile to think that one of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She knew even intimate things about him that he hadn't yet told her and perhaps never would. He wasn't unaware that he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It was as if these depths, constantly bridged over by a structure that was firm enough in spite of its lightness and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She knew that this silent, motionless portal opened into the street; if the sidelights had not been filled with green paper, she… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She looked about her again, on her feet, at her scattered melancholy comrades -- some of them so melancholy as to be… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian’s ease of manner and flow of ideas.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She [was] . . . one of those convenient types who don't keep you explaining --minds with doors as numerous as the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“little and then gone back. Miss Mavis hadn’t turned up—and she didn’t turn up. The stewardess began to look for her—she hadn’t… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all… — Henry James Copy Share
“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened… — Henry James Copy Share
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