The Chateau Quotes

“...human thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else's mind is the willingness to read your own.”
― William Maxwell, The Chateau

“She has a charming voice. Something of the French intonation carries over into the English, of course. But it's more than that, I think. It's an amused voice. It has a slight suggestion of humor, at no one's expense. As if she had learned to see things with a clarity that - that was often in excess of whatever need there was for seeing things clearly. And the residue had turned into something like amusement.”
― William Maxwell, The Chateau