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“She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“… I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.”

Edith Wharton

“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 8

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth