The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”
“I 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.”
“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”
“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
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Book Keywords:
kindness, falsehood, pretense, etiquette, love, family, loneliness, awe, friends, insincerity
