half-attracting

Updated: May 7, 2025

She had never before encountered so dominant a personality. It affected her strangely, half-attracting, half-repelling, arousing in her a sense of antagonism that yet was not aversion. "I wish you would say all that out loud," said Nap. "You have such interesting thoughts, it is really selfish of you not to express them." "Surely not," she said, "if you know what they are."

Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell - The Knave of Diamonds