Proverbs 27:6
When Dean gives Emily’s book a negative review, he begins:
Dean looked at her, guilty. How ivory white and exquisite she was in the chill dusk!
“‘Faithful are the wounds of a friend.’ I should be less than your friend if I told you falsehoods about this, Emily.”
“So–it’s no good.”
“It’s a pretty little story, Emily. Pretty and flimsy and ephemeral as a rose-tinted cloud. Cobwebs–only cobwebs. The whole conception is too far-fetched. Fairy tales are out of the fashion. And this one of yours makes overmuch of a demand on the credulity of the reader. And your characters are only puppets. How could you write a real story? You’ve never LIVED.”
-Emily’s Quest ch.6
Proverbs 27:6
King James Bible
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Source
King James Bible
