Frances. Adburgham

“Oh we're not loved. We're not even hated. We're only just sweetly ignored.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

“When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.”
― Émile Zola

“the perpetual disruptive nature of youth generally. “Desolation,” yes, but also a child’s sense of immediacy, the capacity to enter into the moment-by-moment flow of life as it unfolds, not trying to make narrative sense of one’s situation, and not caring overmuch if the whole setup comes crashing down.”
― Joseph Tabbi, Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis

“He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors