Leia’s Reviews > The Portrait of a Lady > Status Update

“Mr. Ralph Touchett, an American who lives in Europe.” That signifirs absolutely nothing - it’s impossiblr that anything could signify less.

A woman, perhaps, can get on; a woman, it seems to me, has no natural place anywhere; wherever she finds herself she has to remain on the surface and, more or less, crawl.

‘Well, if you are so bent on being miserable, I don’t see why you should make me so. Whatever charms unhappiness may have for you, it has none for me.’

and our rustling, quickly-moving, clear-voiced heroine was as agreeable to his sense as the sound of flowing water.

‘You strike me as different from most girls.’

it’s been a line for centuries guys…. leaving the lexicon NEVER