Edith Wharton Quotes

Love, She Told Herself, Would One Day Release Her From This Spell Of Unreality. She Was Persuaded That The Sublime Passion Was The Key To The Enigma; But It Was Difficult To Relate Her Conception Of Love To The Forms It Wore In Her Experience. Two Or Three Of The Girls She Had Envied For Their Superior Acquaintance With The Arts Of Life Had Contracted, In The Course Of Time, What Were Variously Described As "romantic" Or "foolish" Marriages; One Even Made A Runaway Match, And Languished For A While Under A Cloud Of Social Reprobation. Here, Then, Was Passion In Action, Romance Converted To Reality; Yet The Heroines Of These Exploits Returned From Them Untransfigured, And Their Husbands Were As Dull As Ever When One Had To Sit Next To Them At Dinner. Her Own Case, Of Course, Would Be Different.

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