“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James 154
American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916Related quotes
“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Source: The Member of the Wedding
Ch 29
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Context: She watched him with cool green eyes and smiled innocently. The eyes were alert with wonder, curiosity, and — perhaps something else — but she could apparently not see that he was in pain. There was something about her eyes that caused him to notice nothing else for several seconds. But then he noticed that the head of Mrs. Grales slept soundly on the other shoulder while Rachel smiled. It seemed a young shy smile that hoped for friendship. He tried again.
"Listen, is anyone else alive? Get —"
Melodious and solemn came her answer: "listen is anyone else alive — " She savored the words. She enunciated them distinctly. She smiled over them Her lips reframed them when her voice was done with them. It was more than reflexive imitation, he decided. She was trying to communicate something. By the repetition, she was trying to convey the idea: I am somehow like you.
But she had only just now been born.
And you're somehow different, too, Zerchi noticed with a trace of awe.
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 142
Source: Among women only (1949), Chapter 9, p. 212