213 Quotes About Henry-james

When I'm bad I am bad!

But even while they pretend to be lost in their fairy-tale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored to them.

They haven't been good — they've only been absent. It has been easy to live with them because they're simply leading a life of their own.

And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.

The element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other.

I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known.

How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?

I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.

These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.