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“I want to see a bit more of New York, even though it’s snowing and cold.”

Book:Half Girlfriend

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Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author whose contemporary novels often deal with social issues and have a wide appeal. Born on April 22, 1974, he has gained recognition for his ability to bridge the gap between popular culture and literature. more

“The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which her beauty was a part.”

Love Beauty Grace Elegance Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart Lawrence Selden

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she’s talk about she’s done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.”

Truth Reputation Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .”

Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart Lawrence Selden

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.”

Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.”

Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart

Author:Edith Wharton

“Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”

Edith Wharton

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")”

Edith Wharton

Book:Short Shorts

Source: Short Shorts

“Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.”

Philosophy Wisdom Poetry Faith Quotes Literature Seeing Books Blind Poetry Quotes Poets Dejan Stojanovic Literature Quotes Eyesight The Sun Watches The Sun

Book:The Sun Watches the Sun

Source: The Sun Watches the Sun

“Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.”

Freedom Henry James Edith Wharton

Book:The Odd Woman and the City

Source: The Odd Woman and the City

“When she said to him once "It looks as if it was painted!" it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret souls.”

Love Edith Wharton

Book:Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

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