Apprehension Quote by John Barth
“Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.”
![“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman…” quote by Feodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/302/feodor-dostoevsky-44924_beauty_she-was-very-fond-of-thinking-and-gettin_3039156.jpg)
