Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.
“Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.”
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“and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“a forehead so high that it can make you think of cathedrals.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes in a human face is the record of that collision.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“beaux yeux.”
― The Good Soldier
― The Good Soldier
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