knife-faced

Updated: April 30, 2025

If mother weren't there that Nancy would have been at the telephone an hour ago in spite of young people's pride and old people's self-respect and all the thousand and one knife-faced fetishes that all the correct and common-sensible people hug close and worship because they hurt. She can see the train sliding out of the station.

Stephen Vincent Benét - Young People's Pride : A Novel