Quotes From 'The Age Of Innocence' By Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Quotations:
“The young man felt that his fate was sealed: for the rest of his life he would go up every evening between the cast-iron railings of that greenish-yellow doorstep, and pass through a Pompeian vestibule into a hall with a wainscoting of varnished yellow wood. But beyond that his imagination could not travel.” (Book One, Chapter 9, p. 63)
“I want somehow get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won’t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the life to each other, and nothing else will matter.”
“Oh, my dear - where is that country? Have you ever been there?” (Book Two, Chapter 29, p. 247)
Abstract:
Edith Wharton
Quotations:
“The young man felt that his fate was sealed: for the rest of his life he would go up every evening between the cast-iron railings of that greenish-yellow doorstep, and pass through a Pompeian vestibule into a hall with a wainscoting of varnished yellow wood. But beyond that his imagination could not travel.” (Book One, Chapter 9, p. 63)
“I want somehow get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won’t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the life to each other, and nothing else will matter.”
“Oh, my dear - where is that country? Have you ever been there?” (Book Two, Chapter 29, p. 247)
Abstract:
Edith Wharton