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.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

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

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

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.