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Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

— Edith Wharton

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it…

— Edith Wharton

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want…

— Edith Wharton

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

— Edith Wharton

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…

— Edith Wharton

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's…

— Edith Wharton

“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew…

— Edith Wharton

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even…

— Edith Wharton

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we…

— Edith Wharton

“I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't…

— Edith Wharton

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…

— Edith Wharton

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or…

— Edith Wharton