Firsts Quote by Edith Wharton

“His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had…

— Edith Wharton

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost…

— Cormac McCarthy

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

“Life, consciousness, self-awareness, he decided in that moment, amounted to a remarkable gift bestowed upon those fortunate enough to have been born. It had…

— G.F. Gustav

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly…

— Ann Patchett

“Over the years of his hidden love, he had grown accustomed to thinking in impossibilities, of all he might lose should he risk what…

— Theresa Romain

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered…

— Cormac McCarthy

The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it…

— Laini Taylor

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce

He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple…

— Mervyn Peake

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald