...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith WhartonI discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
Edith WhartonI am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.
Edith Wharton