..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.