“She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”

Source: Tender Is the Night

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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