Edith Wharton Quotes

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:memory

“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

topic:darkness light

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

― Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

topic:light

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:hate living

“They're all alike, you know: they hold their tongues for years, and you think you're safe, but when their opportunity comes they remember everything.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:silence

“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:silence lie

“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

topic:eyes

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

topic:fate

“What others? I don't profess to be different from my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:difference want

“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:worth

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