-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced-or seemed to face-the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just […]
the great gatsby
I’m reading …
Because I have to. The first sentence that made me feel as though perhaps this wasn’t going to be as tedious a task as when I first attempted to read it, waaaay back in school, was: “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him …” Really that’s […]