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A dry stick broke behind him. He felt Imy’s hand come into his own, and he gripped her fingers tightly. “He stands there as friendly,” he said. But the bear was not friendly. The bear was austere, was a lonely superior figure, the master of
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“Necessarily he must absent himself from felicity”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“A man’s mind is a strange creature for a man to have to live with; God knows, it don’t make sense most of the time. No telling what a man will dream, or what he will think, either.”
― The Land Breakers
― The Land Breakers
“For a while the sobered women who had come to mourn for their dead, for something they could not repair, made the room beautiful.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Like most women she liked to be told how she should feel, and she liked Dick’s telling her which things were ludicrous and which things were sad. But most of all she wanted him to know how she loved him, now that the fact was upsetting everything, now that she was walking over the battlefield in a thrilling dream.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of the wind, she learned a score of words. She was quick, and very eager. We were so deep in the grass that we could see nothing but the blue sky over us and the gold tree in front of us. It was wonderfully pleasant. After Antonia had said the new words over and over, she wanted to give me a little chased silver ring she wore on her middle finger.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
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