Money Quote by Nella Larsen

“But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things…

— Tim O'Brien

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often…

— Lorrie Moore

“She’d always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many…

— Alexander Key

“What she never understood was that success was not about money but more about doing something you enjoyed and being happy about it.”

— George Moser Nine Lives

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could if she wanted. The power to hurt is…

— Naomi Alderman

“the things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.”

— Edith Wharton

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“The problem was that every item on her list was so nebulous. Impossible to pin down. She remembered the days when her worries were…

— Liane Moriarty

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether…

— Roman Payne