Passage of the Day

"...and she thought, people shouldn't ever look closely at one another, they're not like pictures. There was not any sure way to know, from the eyes of her aunt or the mouth of her aunt or the hair or the eyebrows or the lines in the face of her aunt, whether the expression stated by her aunt's face was a faithful delineation of fear or anxiety or expectancy; it might be a kind of ecstacy, or it might be wholly false, and not at all the expression corresponding to Aunt Morgen's thoughts."

~ from Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest