Djuna Barnes Quote

When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.


Nightwood (1936)


When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.

When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.

When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.

When she smiled the smile was only in the mouth and a little bitter: the face of an incurable yet to be stricken with its malady.