“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
“It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe.”
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
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