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Him Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
- It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
- Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
- She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his…
- She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
- Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept…
- ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
- Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the…
- 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…
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and…
- ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and…
- He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast…
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- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
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