There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.
Edith WhartonI have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
Edith WhartonAn education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Edith WhartonDialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
Edith WhartonI couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.
Edith Wharton