Thursday, January 05, 2023

When words fail

 The poor weak words which have failed to describe Miss Fairlie have succeeded in betraying the sensations she awakened in me. It is so with us all. Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

(from The Woman in White, by William Wilkie Collins)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is pretty well stated.
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