Edith Wharton

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 #age

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#amusement #age

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

#lovers #love

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #the-house-of-mirth #life

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love #sensuality #age

Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#faith

I can't love you unless I give you up. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

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. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age