213 Quotes About Henry-james

Life might prove difficult—was evidently going to; but meanwhile they had each other, and that was everything.

She had to take from him again, on this, one of his long looks, and she took it to its deepest, its headiest dregs.

I cling to some saving romance in things.

There were complications, there were questions; but they were so much more together than they were anything else.

Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: "I engage myself to you forever."The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.

It seemed to her at last that she would do well to take a book; formerly, when heavy-hearted, she had been able, with the help of some well-chosen volume, to transfer the seat of consciousness to the organ of pure reason.

They had exchanged vows and tokens, sealed their rich compact, solemnized, so far as breathed words and murmured sounds and lighted eyes and clasped hands could do it, their agreement to belong only, and to belong tremendously, to each other.

But she had after all a better reason for coming to Rome than that she cared for it so little. Her friend easily recognized it, and with it the worth of the other's fidelity. She had crossed the stormy ocean in midwinter because she had guessed that Isabel was sad.

Is there really no hope?" our young woman asked as she stood before her."None whatever. There never has been. It has not been a successful life.""No — it has only been a beautiful one.