Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
Edith WhartonOld age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith WhartonI don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
Edith WhartonI shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. 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