Edith Wharton Together Quotations

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

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 social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

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 to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.