Elizabeth Bowen Quote

She seemed to lie less in weakness than in unwilling credulity as though the successive disasters that make an illness had convinced her slowly, by repetition.


The House in Paris (1935)


She seemed to lie less in weakness than in unwilling credulity as though the successive disasters that make an illness had convinced her slowly, by...

She seemed to lie less in weakness than in unwilling credulity as though the successive disasters that make an illness had convinced her slowly, by...

She seemed to lie less in weakness than in unwilling credulity as though the successive disasters that make an illness had convinced her slowly, by...

She seemed to lie less in weakness than in unwilling credulity as though the successive disasters that make an illness had convinced her slowly, by...