Quotable Miscellany

When she came back to the room David was not there and she stood for a long time and looked at the bed and then went to the bathroom door and then opened it and stood and looked in the long mirror. Her face had no expression and she looked at herself from her head down to her feet with no expression on her face at all. The light was nearly gone when she went into the bathroom and shut the door behind her. Hemingway, Garden of Eden.