Edith Wharton, The Age Of Innocence Quotes
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
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.
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to
Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!