661 Quotes by Edith Wharton

Вдъхващият трепет продукт на обществената система, към която принадлежеше и той и в която вярваше, девойката, която не знаеше нищо и очакваше всичко, го гледаше като непозната през познатите черти на Мей Уелънд и той още веднъж осъзна, че бракът не е тихо пристанище, както му бяха внушавали, а плаване из незнайни морета.

He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by Percy Grice, dull but undeniably rich, "on the bare chance that he might ultimately do her the honor of boring her for life?

...she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room

...she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

Do you know – I hardly remembered you?”“Hardly remembered me?”“I mean; how shall I explain? I – it’s always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”“Oh, yes: I know! I know!”“Does it – do I too: to you?” he insisted.She nodded, looking out of the window.