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Quotes About Imperviousness

If she'd meant to shame him, it seemed to roll off like water from slate.
~ Elizabeth Bear
They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system. They could not change it because they were part of it, grew out of it, depended on it.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness
~ William Faulkner
and Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
~ William Faulkner