He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
His flexible mind extended to take in his opponent's position and then snapped back like an elastic, with the illusion that it had covered ground.
I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a...
I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both sid...
I mean exactly that, Mr. Davison retorted. You’ve hit the nail smack on the head. We pay a price for having money. People in my position—he turned to Kay—have ‘privilege.’ That’s what I read in the Na...
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into somet...
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